Services for Reviewers

Reviewers play the most important role in transforming a manuscript into a high quality journal article. It is our aim to help you as much as possible and to permanently serve you with personal assistance.

You benefit from:

• Care for the individual manuscript tracking from submission to acceptance by one staff member who always stays at your disposal;
• Consistent usage of online tools to enable you to work on the reviews at any time from any place;
• Public Peer-Review allowing you to publish your reports in order to maximise the transparency of scientific quality assurance.

How do I get Access to the Review Tools?

Submitted manuscripts are classified by the authors according to the individual journal subject areas. Based on that information, the online editorial support system asks the matched editors if they are interested in reviewing the respective manuscript. After acceptance, the editor is asked to screen the paper and to nominate referees.

Editors and referees are informed by email about the next steps and any actions that should be undertaken. The Copernicus Publications Editorial Support is always available to help and assist during the different steps and in case that any questions may arise.

Access to the tools for reviewers as well as specific information about the review process of a journal can be found on the individual journal web pages under the menu item "Review".