How to publish in PNAS. Part 4 of a new 5 part series - check back next week for Part 5! Question: How does your editorial review process work? How is your Editorial Board chosen? Answer: A PNAS Editorial Board member (who is also an NAS member) evaluates initial submissions and is responsible for the final decision about acceptance. The Editorial Board member can reject the paper at initial evaluation, elect to serve as the NAS member editor, or select another NAS member editor. There are currently 196 members of the Editorial Board. Next, the NAS member editor can reject the paper or send the paper for review. After review, the member editor makes a recommendation about acceptance to the Editorial Board member. Multiple rounds of review and revision are strongly discouraged. More than 2,600 NAS members and Foreign Associates are eligible to serve as member editors; 1,214 members handled papers in 2013. In rare cases where there are no NAS member editors available to review a submission or expert in the subject matter, a nonmember guest editor may be used. The final decision about acceptance is still made by the Editorial Board member. Editorial Board members are nominated by the Editor-in-Chief and confirmed by the NAS Council. Editorial Board members are chosen to cover the breadth of disciplines within the NAS and the articles published in PNAS. For more information, check out our new FAQs for authors and other resources explaining our review process: pnas.org/site/authors/authorfaq.xhtml.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 15:43:34 +0000
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