Revision strategy

Revision, rebuttal, and post-rejection guides

Use these guides after reviewer comments, a major-revision decision, or a rejection that requires choosing the next journal carefully.

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Focused revision and rejection collections

Use these collections when you already have a decision letter and need the next journal-specific move.

During revision

These pages help authors decide what the decision means, how to structure a rebuttal, and when to escalate an appeal.

After rejection

These pages route rejected manuscripts toward journals with a more realistic scope, evidence threshold, or audience fit.