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21st Century Pathology

Reviewer Guidelines

Responsibilities of reviewers:

  • Throughout the peer-review process, the reviewer should remain confidential about the content of the unpublished manuscript and preserve the highest ethical standards.
  • If there are any potential professional or financial conflicts of interest, the reviewer should notify the editor.
  • All co-authors acknowledge the journal's copyright and open access policies.
  • Reviewers should provide straightforward and unbiased feedback to authors while avoiding direct criticism or comments about their acceptance or denial. The comments should be productive and aid the authors in shaping the manuscript into its best possible form.

Reviewer Instructions

Instructions for Reviewers

For all submitted manuscripts, 21st Century Pathology guarantees a thorough and objective peer review by the subject-matter experts in order to uphold the high standard of the editorial process. The reviewer's summary, which emphasizes the following, serves as the basis for the decision to accept an article:

  • The objective of the study or experimental design.
  • Appropriate implementation of methods.
  • Discussion of results and data analysis.
  • Novelty of the findings and conclusions having potential scientific impact.

21st Century Pathology Review Process

  • The Managing Editor (ME) ranks authors who submit manuscripts with a preference section indication according to the total H index, patent index, prototypes, total Impact Factor normalised by the average number of co-authors, author position, and adherence to 21st Century Pathology ’s editorial policy, whenever this is feasible.
  • Editor-in-Chief (EIC): verifies author ranking, proposed section, and relevance of article title; assigns article for review to a suitable Associate Editor (AE) or Managing Editor (ME); ME selects peer-reviewers from the list of experts in the chosen fields already compiled by the EIC and continually updated by ME upon direction from the Editorial Board and Advisory Board.
  • Editorials written by the editor-in-chief or editorial board members are not subjected to external peer review and require only the editor-in-chief's approval. Original research articles and reviews written by an editorial board member, on the other hand, will go through the 21st Century Pathology ’s standard peer review process.
  • Following the recommendations of the AE and/or EBM and/or referees, selected papers are eventually accepted by the EIC in terms of adherence to the 21st Century Pathology ’s editorial policies for the submitted papers as defined in the 21st Century Pathology Scope, Aims, and Topics.

Reviewer’s responsibility

  • During the peer-review process, the reviewer should remain confidential about the content of the unpublished manuscript and adhere to the highest ethical standards.
  • If there is a potential professional or financial conflict of interest, the reviewer should notify the editor.
  • Reviewers should provide clear and concise unbiased feedback to authors while avoiding personal criticism or comments about acceptance or rejection. The comments should be constructive and aid the authors in shaping the manuscript into its best possible form.

All articles submitted to 21st Century Pathology are subjected to a double-blind peer review process in which both the reviewer and the author remain anonymous.

As a thank you to the reviewers (because the peer-review process is entirely voluntary), 21st Century Pathology offers a 25% discount on the article processing charge for accepted manuscripts where the reviewer is the corresponding author, if submitted within 18 months of the review process's completion.