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Referee Report Form


Communication


Journal of Environmental Monitoring
Editorial Office, Cambridge, UK

Your ReSourCe identifier: *


Your email address: *

 (a copy will be sent to this address)

Paper reference number: *

 (e.g. B012345A)


Criteria for Acceptance

Journal of Environmental Monitoring Communications:

  • Must report significant preliminary results or very novel ideas that are of immediate interest to the scientific community. Please note that since the journal’s aim is to publish preliminary results, incompleteness of work is not a valid reason for rejection. Short ‘papers’, however, are not suitable for publication.
  • Are limited to 3 pages and no more than 5 figures.
  • Please note that the current rejection rate for this journal is 75%.



    1. How would you rate this paper relative to other papers published in Journal of Environmental Monitoring?*

      Top 10%
      Top 25%
      Top 50%
      Bottom 50%


    2. Are the aims/objectives of this article sufficiently clear? *

      Yes
      No


    3. Is the article's length commensurate with its content? (Please consider any relevant page limits when answering) *

      Yes
      No

      If the article is too long, please include in your comments recommendations for deleting text, tables or illustrations.


    4. Could any material be transferred to the RSC's Electronic Supplementary Information area? *

      Yes
      No

      Please give details in your comments.


    5. Are the results clearly given with adequate statistic/validation methods? *

      Yes
      No


    6. Does the article's title adequately reflect its content? *

      Yes
      No


    7. Are the objectives, salient features and important quantitative data stated in the abstract? *

      Yes
      No


    8. What contribution does this paper make to the subject area it addresses? *



      1 = Poor, 10 = Outstanding


    9. What is your recommendation? *

      Accept - unchanged
      Accept - with minor revisions
      Accept - with major revisions
      Reconsider - after major revisions
      Reject - encourage resubmission in:   
      Reject - lack of novelty/significance/urgency - see comments
      Reject - fragmentation/lack of new material - see comments
      Reject - scientific reasons - see comments
      Reject - other - see comments

      Your recommendation cannot be used unless justification is provided. Please support your recommendation in your comments.



    If you recommend acceptance you must provide details to support this decision and you should outline any revisions (which should be achievable within 10 days) and indicate any additional experimental evidence required to support the results (e.g. as Electronic Supplementary Information).

    If you recommend rejection you must provide details to support this decision. If you feel that work may be suitable for publication elsewhere please indicate the most appropriate journal and format.


    Type/paste your comments here: *

    OR Upload a document file - MS Word (.doc), plain text (.txt) or Acrobat (.pdf) files only:



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