Reviewers are usually invited by the editorial office or recommended by authors. Anyone who wants to work voluntarily as a reviewer can contact the editorial office.
- Accepting an Invitation to Review
- Editors invite you to review as they believe that you are an expert in a certain area. They would have judged this from your previous publication record or posters and/or sessions you have contributed to at conferences. Before you accept an invitation to review a paper, you should consider some questions:
- • Are your qualified? If the manuscript is too far outside your area, you should decline to review it.
- • Do you have time? If review comments cannot be submitted within 14 days of review period, please decline to review or ask for extension of the review period.
- • Are there any potential conflicts of interest? In case of any of the above conflicts of interest, the reviewer should decline to review. If the reviewer still wishes to review, the conflicts of interest should be specifically disclosed.