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Refereeing at SciPost

A guide for referees and authors

The following is a general guide to refereeing at SciPost. Slightly informal in style, it is meant to introduce you to how our peer review system works.

It is not meant to replace our official rules and other helpful pages, which you will find in the Useful links box next to this menu.

You should already be somewhat familiar with our submission and refereeing procedure.

Referees should in particular be familiar with our referee code of conduct. Authors should in particular be familiar with our author obligations.

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For referees

Have you been invited to write a Report?

Here are some basic things we trust you will do:

Do you wish to contribute a Report?

Perhaps you simply noticed an interesting manuscript currently under evaluation, or perhaps a colleague notified you of its existence via email or other means. You feel that your expertise could be useful to our editorial process.

Even if you have not been explicitly invited to referee by one of our Fellows, as a registered Contributor, you can still provide a Report.

You can simply follow the Contribute a Report on the manuscript's Submission page. Of course, you'll have to do this before the refereeeing deadline, and you'll have to comply with all our conflict-of-interest rules mentioned above.

What do we ask you in our Report form?

Our Report form is quite intuitive and straightforward, and can be easily filled if you have already read and thought about the paper.

To be clear, when filling in a Report form, you will be asked for:

Before you write your Report

Writing your Report

The characteristics of a good Report

There are no fixed rules or expectations, but a good report is typically:

FAQ


For authors

How to react to a Report?

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