What Makes a Good Review
What makes a good review? Some advice to potential reviewers about what we hope your review will accomplish for our authors and for us.
What makes a good review? Some advice to potential reviewers about what we hope your review will accomplish for our authors and for us.
On a first invitation to revise and resubmit, you will have at least three reviews and a letter from us that may suggest how to work with the reviews or provide you with additional advice. But how do you work through this advice, particularly when it is contradictory or advice that you disagree with? And what should you include in the detailed memo we request that you include with your resubmission?
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