Peer Review

Principles of peer review

The forms of articles published in the Journal of Global Change Data & Discovery mainly include: data paper; review; data policy; data technology; world geographic data encyclopedia; academic activities and related reports, etc. Among them, data paper is the main content of the journal, and the review includes data paper and dataset, which need to be reviewed by 3-5 peer experts and reviewed by maps and approved by relevant state departments. Articles, such as reviews, data technology, data policy, etc., which have no dataset, usually need 2-3 peer experts to review. For any questions or comments about the peer review process, the journal, or its editorial policies that are not answered here, you can contact us by phone, email and other forms.

Review process

(1) All submitted manuscripts are first reviewed by editorial board members. In order to save the time of authors and reviewers, only those that are most likely to meet our publishing standards are sent for formal review. Papers that the editor considers of insufficient general interest or inappropriate will be rejected immediately with justification for the rejection or modification and will not be sent for external review.
(2) Sometimes, if special advice is needed, the manuscript is sent to more reviewers. editor then makes a decision from among several possibilities, based on the reviewers’ advice:
  • ● Accept, with or without editorial revisions
  • ● Invite the authors to revise their manuscript to address specific concerns before a final decision is reached
  • ● Reject, but indicate to the authors that further work might justify a resubmission
  • ● Reject outright, usually because it does not meet the aims of the journal, or there are insufficient conceptual advance or major technical problems during data development, etc.
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