Peer review

• Pharmacy Reports operates a single-anonymous peer review system, meaning the reviewers know the authors’ identities, but the authors do not know who the reviewers are.
• Upon submission to Pharmacy Reports, each manuscript is initially evaluated by at least one of the journal’s editors.
• Authors are notified whether the submission will proceed to the peer review stage. Research articles that pass this screening are reviewed by two independent peer reviewers.

Decision

• Submissions that peer review might be referred back to authors for revision. This is an invitation to present the best possible paper for further scrutiny by the journal; it is not an acceptance
• Authors should give priority to such revisions; the journal will reciprocate by making a final decision quickly
• Two copies of the revised version should be sent back, one of which should be highlighted to show where changes have been made.

Appeals

• Sometimes editors make mistakes. When we do, we like to hear about them. If an author believes that an editor has made an error in declining a paper, we welcome an appeal. In your appeal letter, which should be sent to pharmrep1000@gmail.com), please state why you think the decision is mistaken and set out your specific responses to any peer reviewers’ comments if those seem to have been the main cause of rejection,
• At least two editors will decide whether to invite a revised manuscript and whether re-review or otherwise, is indicated.

Proofs

• Corresponding authors will receive a proofing file before we send it to the production section.