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After submitting your paper to the journal, preparing to deal with peer review is the next point of focus. Peer review is not the only thing that decides whether your manuscript will be accepted — your responses to peer review comments are even more critical to shaping this decision! This session shares a strategic approach to comprehensively respond to the requests of the peer reviewers and journal editor and thus trigger faster acceptance of your manuscript. 

Outline

• Journal decision-making process
• Who are the peer reviewers
• Decisions that necessitate a response to the reviewer
• Tips to respond to peer reviewer comments
• Disagreement with the suggested changes
• Dealing with requests for major changes
• Sample responses to reviewer comments