Submitting an appeal

If you believe that we have rejected your manuscript wrongly, perhaps because we have misunderstood its scientific content, please submit an appeal letter. This should be as detailed as possible. If we have provided comments from external peer review and/or from a full editorial committee please respond to these, point-by-point, in your appeal letter. We may invite you to submit a revised paper if we wish to consider your appeal further, and it will be easier for us to decide what to do if you send a very detailed letter.

Appeals clarifying and revising specific parts of the manuscript, for instance the analysis of original data, tend to succeed much more often than appeals against essentially editorial decisions. If the editors and/or the full editorial committee have decided that your paper is not sufficiently interesting or important for LJPC readers, there may be no point in trying to appeal.

Lastly, we can consider only one appeal per manuscript. Our experience is that prolonged negotiations over rejected papers are usually unsatisfactory for both authors and editors.