Peer Review Process

Guidelines & Policies

All manuscripts will be evaluated by three peer reviewers who are selected by the editors. The acceptance criteria for all papers are based on the quality and originality of the research and its scientific significance. An initial decision will normally be made within 4 weeks after the reviewers agree to review, and the reviewers' comments will then be sent to the corresponding authors.

Revised manuscripts must be submitted online by the corresponding author. The corresponding author must indicate the alterations made in response to the reviewers' comments item by item in a response note. Failure to resubmit the revised manuscript within 4 weeks of the editorial decision is regarded as a withdrawal. The editorial office should be notified if additional time is needed or if an author chooses not to submit a revision.

The editorial committee makes decisions concerning minor revision, resubmission, and acceptance or rejection. Before the review process proceeds, all manuscripts are briefly reviewed by a Managing Editor to check their validity (pre-review process). The editor may request some editing of the manuscript, including redrawing of figures or changing the paper's format or section order.

Evaluation Outcomes

Accept

An accept with no revision means that the submission is complete and there are no suggestions for improvement. The paper is ready for publication.

Minor Revision

A minor revision is used only for papers that have a clear contribution and need only small changes to be ready for publication. A minor revision usually means that only textual changes are needed. For a minor revision, only the Editor needs to validate that the revised paper has adequately met the suggested changes.

Resubmit

The classification "Resubmit" is used when a paper shows a potential contribution and the topic is of interest to CSHR, but not enough information is provided to determine this. The resubmission goes through a faster review process to determine whether it should be accepted or rejected.

Reject

This rating is used when the submission is off topic for CSHR, is an incremental contribution over prior work, or when a more complete submission is needed to better evaluate the ideas presented. Authors may revise, run new experiments, and decide to potentially submit to CSHR at a later date. If submitted again, it will be treated as a new submission.

Authors can track the progress of a manuscript on the journal's submission website: https://cshr.jams.or.kr. Articles accepted for publication move from the "Manuscripts Accepted" to the "Manuscripts in Publication" section.