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How to review Elsevier journal paper | Everything you need to know


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Are you finding it difficult to review manuscript for any online publishing company? Do you want to be a part of the Elsevier manuscript reviewers? Do you want to know how to review Elsevier journal paper? If your own question falls into any of these categories, don't worry. We are here to guide you on how to review Elsevier journal paper including everything you need to know about the Elsevier journal paper.




Elsevier is an online analytical and publishing company that helps researchers find new answers, expand their knowledge and tackle the most urgent challenges in the world.


They provide global information and solutions that helps researchers in arts, science, health, technology, among others, to solve their problems thereby serving the needs of mankind in both science and health.


In Elsevier, it is very important to review any journal paper before publishing it. In fact, both peer review and reviewers form the basic foundation of any academic publishing company. This is because, the peer review critically criticize any academic work submitted as manuscript and help to improve on the already existing knowledge thereby improving the quality of any published research work.


In the review of any particular manuscript, it is important to note that the invited reviewer must not necessarily have an already existing account with the journal site. The academic editor will automatically generate an invitation link with which the invited reviewer will use to accept or decline the offer of invitation.


 In this article, we are going to guide you on how to review Elsevier journal paper.


To review any academic journal paper, whether it is Elsevier journal paper or not, is not an easy feat. It may sound so easy but there are many things you have to consider before you accept to review any academic journal paper.



Guide on how to review Elsevier journal paper


Before you can review any Elsevier journal paper, consider the following guides below.


Area of expertise (number of impact factor journals): Make sure that any journal paper that you want to review matches your area of research interest. The reason for this is to enable the reviewer give the journal paper his or her best during the review process.


Conflict of interest: Make sure that the invited reviewer does not have any conflict of interest whatsoever with the authors of the manuscript.


Time schedule: Make sure that as a reviewer, you have available time to review any journal paper that you accepted and submit the said manuscript within the record time (i.e. before deadline). This is to enhance rapid decision of the manuscript by the academic editor.


Accept or decline invitation: An invited reviewer can choose to accept or decline any offer of review by any academic editor.

 


How to review Elsevier journal paper


Some people may ask “is there a proper way to review Elsevier journal paper?”. Well, follow us as we take you through the process of how to review Elsevier journal paper.

 

Receiving a reviewer invitation

An invited reviewer will be sent an invitation to review a manuscript by the handling editor of the journal through an e-mail requesting for his or her professional assessment of the manuscript. The invited reviewer will then indicate whether to accept or to decline the invite. The abstract of the manuscript will also be attached at the end of the mail for his or her perusal.


Accept a reviewer invitation

When the reviewer has accepted to review any Elsevier manuscript, he will click on “Agree to Review” button, the submission will then move from the “New Reviewer Invitations” folder to the “Pending Assignments” folder, where the reviewer will download the manuscript and begin the process of reviewing the manuscript. Reviewers will also be given a confirmation that an invitation has been accepted.


Reject a review invitation

When an invited reviewer rejects an invitation offer to review a manuscript, the reviewer will click on “Decline to Review” button. Notification will be sent to the handling editor that the reviewer will not be reviewing the manuscript. To complete this process, the reviewer must click on “Submit” to complete the process of declining an invitation to review.


Reviewer assignment

A notification of the reviewer assignment will be sent by the handling editor to the reviewer via e-mail. The reviewer is now assigned a manuscript and will find the submission in their “Pending Assignments” folder instead of the “New Reviewer Invitations” folder. Some journal papers may use a Deep Link Merge field in the reviewer assignment letter which will bring the Reviewer directly to the “Pending Assignments” folder.

 

However, some journal papers may decide to send a direct link from the e-mail that they sent to the invited reviewers for them to accept or decline a manuscript review. These links perform the following review actions:


1. Accept a review invitation

2. Decline a review invitation

3. View Pending Assignment folder

The reviewer will be now click on these links to perform any of the actions listed above.

 

Submission of the review report into the online system

The submitted reports should be centered on the overall assessment of the manuscript in terms of clarity, novelty, wide readership and grammatical errors.

To begin the process of submission of review by the reviewer, the reviewer will click on the “Submit Recommendation” button. This will automatically bring the reviewer to the “Recommendation and Comments” page.

 

Reviewer recommendation and comments

On the reviewer recommendation and comments page, the reviewer will be required to provide all their necessary recommendation and also answer any pre-configured questions from the journal site.


Selecting a recommendation

The reviewer can select the type of recommendation he wants on the manuscript through the drop-down button on the recommendation page. The recommendation can always fall into three categories, namely: accept, revise or reject.

While submitting the reviewed manuscript by the reviewer, the journal site will ask the reviewer to rate the reviewed manuscript on the scale of 1-100.

 

Submitting review

When the reviewer has finally filled all the necessary information needed on the review form, the reviewer can then click on the “Proceed” button from the Reviewer Comments and Recommendation” page. It will take the reviewer automatically to a new page where the summary of all the information entered is displayed. After all the necessary editing has been done, the reviewer can now click on the “Submit Review to Journal Office” button.

If there is still no correction needed on the reviewer’s comment, the reviewer can then click on the “OK” button to proceed to the next stage, or the “Cancel” button to make adequate changes. After the review has been successfully submitted, a new screen will open thanking the reviewer for a successful manuscript review. 

 

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