Publication Decision

Time to completion

Next editorial meeting after completion of review process.

Responsibility

Academic editors

Action required

  1. Deciding whether or not submission is to be accepted, rejected, provisionally accepted pending revision, or invited to resubmit after significant revision
  2. Deciding on what revisions (if any will be required)
  3. Deciding on comments to be sent to author.

Background and further details

This is the defining operation of a journal. Every editorial team come up with their own sense of what is acceptable, how rejections and requests for revision are to be handled, and so on.

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