New technology allows us to collect rich and voluminous data about refereeing — something that was not possible before. In this quantitative study we consider data about the dates of sending (i) suitable articles to BJET, (ii) the articles to referees, and (iii) when the referees’ reports are returned to the editor. To do this we examined data from over 11,000 reports collected between 2005 (wh...

ince its first publication as a general radiology scientific journal in 2000, the Korean Journal of Radiology has continuously evolved and improved. In 2005, around 203 manuscripts were submitted to our journal; this increased to around 356 in 2006. More time and thus more reviewers are therefore needed to review these manuscript submissions. The Korean Journal of Radiology now has an electroni...

  

Pre-publication peer-review forms the basis for how scholarly journals assess whether an article is suitable for publication. It is of paramount importance that the process is seen to be fair, robust and free of bias. One of the key methods for achieving these goals is blinding. Up until now, Games has used single blind peer-review, where the reviewer identities are not known to authors. This a...

Thank you again for submitting your work to Molecular Systems Biology. We have now heard back from two of the three referees who agreed to evaluate your manuscript. Rather than delaying the process further, I prefer to make a recommendation now with the two available reports. As you will see from the reports below, the referees find the topic of your study of potential interest. They raise, how...

Abstract The GLES Open Science Challenge 2021 was a pilot project aimed at demonstrating that registered reports are an appropriate and beneficial publication format in quantitative political science helps to increase transparency replicability the research process thus yields substantial relevant contributions our discipline. resulted of this special issue, which includes seven based on data f...

Title: Perceived Stress, Unhealthy Eating Behaviors, and Severe Obesity in Low-Income Women Authors: Andrea Richardson ([email protected]) Joanne Arsenault ([email protected]) Sheryl Cates ([email protected]) Mary Muth ([email protected]) Version: 1 Date: 25 Oct 2015 Author’s response to reviews: EDITOR: Your manuscript "Increased Stress May Lead to Poor Eating Behaviors and Severe Obes...

Title: Reliability of self-report measures of correlates of obesity-related behaviours in Hong Kong adolescents for the iHealt(H) and IPEN Adolescent studies Authors: Ester Cerin ([email protected]; [email protected]) Cindy Sit ([email protected]) Anthony Barnett ([email protected]) Wendy Huang ([email protected]) Gemma Gao ([email protected]) Stephen Wong ([email protected])...

PURPOSE Complete and accurate reporting of original research in the biomedical literature is essential for healthcare professionals to translate research outcomes appropriately into clinical practice. Use of reporting guidelines has become commonplace among journals, peer reviewers, and authors. This narrative review aims 1) to inform investigators, peer reviewers, and authors of original resea...