Much has been written, in Nature Portfolio journals and elsewhere, on the peer-review system as a whole. Alternative systems have been proposed in outline: for example, signed peer-review ...

Much has been written, in Nature Portfolio journals and elsewhere, on the peer-review system as a whole. Alternative systems have been proposed in outline: for example, signed peer-review ...

The following outline can be used to track the status of your manuscript. If you currently have a manuscript in peer review, you will see a status message on your Author Dashboard in ScholarOne under ...

Undergoing initial checking: The Editor-in-Chief (EIC) and Associate Editors-in-Chief* evaluate the manuscript and will choose one of the following actions**: Assign the manuscript to a Subject-matter ...