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What policy failures or issues can result in a manuscript’s rejection, revision, and resubmittal to a BAO? [064]

By Office of Science Quality and Integrity

Issues in clear violation of FSP policy and procedures or other policies can result in rejection of a manuscript with a request for revision and resubmittal for approval. These issues include inappropriate/inadequate peer reviewers, incomplete peer review or reconciliation, inappropriate criticism of others, advocacy in presentation of results, lack of product endorsement disclaimers. [Read more]

Issues in clear violation of FSP policy and procedures or other policies, such as scientific integrity, can result in rejection of a manuscript with a request for revision and resubmittal for approval. These issues include, but are not limited to:

  • inappropriate/inadequate peer reviewers
  • incomplete peer review or reconciliation
  • revised text not addressing reconciliation conclusions
  • inappropriate criticism of others and their work
  • advocacy in presentation of results
  • lack of product endorsement disclaimers

In matters of policy wording, the BAOs may work with authors to mitigate these issues.  If policy issues are not resolved, the manuscript will be rejected. If the issues are major or pervasive, manuscripts may be immediately rejected.  Manuscripts with straightforward but required changes can be approved with the expectation that those changes will be made prior to release of the product.