Overview
Reviewer guidance supports fair, confidential, timely, and constructive assessment of manuscripts.
Reviewer responsibilities
Reviewers should accept assignments only when they have suitable expertise, available time, and no unmanaged conflict of interest.
- Keep the manuscript, data, figures, and review discussion confidential.
- Do not use unpublished information for personal, institutional, or commercial advantage.
- Comment on originality, methods, evidence, interpretation, references, ethics, and limitations.
- Separate comments for authors from confidential comments for editors.
Review quality
A useful review gives editors enough information to make a reasoned decision and gives authors clear guidance for improvement.
- Be specific and evidence-based.
- Identify major issues separately from minor edits.
- Recommend additional citations only when they are genuinely relevant.
- Alert editors privately about suspected misconduct, plagiarism, image concerns, or data issues.
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