Question

1. In scientific peer review:

a) list 3 possible fates authors face an editor reaches a decision from the reviewers

b) which of these fates is most likley if the journal is a high-profile, widely-read publication

Answer 1

a) scientifi peer review means the article received by the editor of the journal will be sent to the peers who are veterans in that respective field, called article under review.

They scrutinize the article for its scientific standandards

Three fates an author could eventually face

1) Accepted: if the article meet the scientific stadards, including well designed studies, logical reasoning with evidence, having future scope and which have likeliness of being cited in future.

2) Resubmit /Revision: where the author will be asked to make some changes according to the journal's guidelines like tailoring or engineering some data or literature etc..

3) Rejected: where the article will be rejected after peer review (may be due to low scientific standards, falsification of data or not having novel findings). Which will not be published in that journal again.

b) Rejection is most likely if a journal have high profile.

Most of the high profile journals having more impact factor have a rate of rejection more than 90% will have high retraction index. However they are claiming there is some times no relationship between impact factor and retraction index.

( Impact factor means the rating of the journal based on the number of citations, the more the number got quoted by other authors will have more impact factor)

(Retraction index means the number of rejections relative to the number of acceptances)

Some experts are telling that 30% of rejections are enough for good research publication, journals standard maintenance and will save the time for authors ( some times the process of publication including article sending by author, peer review and publication takes one year or more)