Peer Review

By swiftly answering editors’ demands for raw data, clarifications, and evidence of ethics approval, patient consent, and copyright clearances, authors are required to completely collaborate and engage in the peer review process. When a first decision is made that “revisions are necessary,” writers should address the reviewers’ remarks methodically, point by point, and promptly. They should then revise and resubmit their manuscript to the journal by the specified deadline.

Common Errors in Published Articles

When writers find serious mistakes or inconsistencies in their own published work, they have a responsibility to inform the journal’s editors or publisher as soon as possible and work with them to either withdraw the manuscript or amend it in the form of an erratum. It is the authors’ responsibility to swiftly revise or withdraw a published work if the editors or publisher discovers through a third party that it contains a serious error or inaccuracy or to show proof to the journal editors that the paper is right.