We are all authors, but at the same time we are all reviewers. We write articles, anticipate that they will be reviewed quickly and favorably and hope that they will be accepted. We write reviews and anticipate that our recommendations will be honored and our concerns will be addressed. The work of authors is visible and rewarding (if published), the work of reviewers is anonymous and not that ...

I commend Burton et al. [1] for publishing their review in the journal. Important reviews should be subject to the widest readership and most rigorous critique if they are to properly influence future practice. Reviews that are solely conducted by small groups in academia can miss out on the wider stakeholder engagement journals’ offer that encourages debate and fosters learning. A feature of t...

This article overviews human language identification (LID) experiments, especially focusing on the modification methods of stimulus, mentioning the experimental designs and languages used. A variety of signals to represent prosody have been used as stimuli in perceptual experiments: lowpass-filtered speech, laryngograph output, triangular pulse trains or sinusoidal signals, LPC-resynthesized or...

BACKGROUND Scientific reviewing is a voluntary process to determine if a manuscript deserves publication. REVIEW MEANS: Responsibly Evaluate, Verify and Improve the manuscript, Educate the authors and editors, and Weigh your expert opinion against the submitted work. Provide your review in a respectful, unbiased and timely manner. REVIEW METHODS Make sure editors know about your willingness t...

“There’s no such thing as a free lunch” is an adage described over one century ago, which became popular by Professor Milton Friedman, in 1975. It came to my mind when reading the interesting editorial by Pasternak and Glina.(1,2) Working on both sides, as an author of journals and a reviewer, I am aware of the importance of a good review. It is powerful to enhance the description of results in...

Guidelines for the preparation of structured reports for laboratory studies, clinical studies, epidemiological studies, and observations could be useful. A structured report should prompt reviewers to acknowledge familiarity or otherwise with method, background papers, and so on. New reviewers could draw up their own system. Reports should be helpful and courteous so that whether or not the pap...

Are there different approaches to undertaking a literature review? Literature reviews aim to answer focused questions to: inform professionals and patients of the best available evidence when making healthcare decisions; influence policy; and identify future research priorities. Although over 14 types of reviews have been identified, literature reviews can be broadly divided into narrative (des...