Date: ………………………………
Dear …………………………………………………………………….
PALIAŢIA is a Journal of Palliative Care, which publish scientific work, clinical lessons and management issues. In order to ensure the quality of the papers published in PALIAŢIA, the Editorial Boards’policy is to invite to two independent reviewers, known with the subject under study, for judging the quality before eventually publication.
We would be extremely honoured if you accepted to review the following manuscript for PALIAŢIA:
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Your experience and expertise made us understand that your contribution is essential in order to see relevant papers with high quality are published in PALIAŢIA. We are aware that you have a limited amount of time, but we count on your voluntary contribution to the development relevant publications in the field of palliative care.
Attached you will find the manuscript as well as the criteria for reviewing form. During the peer-review process, the peer-reviewers will assess the elements from the Criteria for reviewers. The peer-reviewers’ comments must be precise, accurate, clear, and will neither discredit nor be ironic. Generic, unsustainable statements should be avoided. In exchange, use examples from the text and make clear suggestions in order to improve the paper.
The course of the manuscripts is decided taking into consideration the comments and the decisions of the reviewers. The decisions shall take four forms:
- Accept without changes by the reviewers,
- Accept, with minor changes, of the manuscript, by the reviewers,
- Accept, with major changes, of the manuscript, by the reviewers,
- Reject, as adviced by the reviewers.
The decision will be annouced to the correspondence author in a strictly anonymous form. In case there are divergent opinions among the reviewers regarding the inclusion of the manuscipt in one of the above mentioned categories, the editor will formulate a short statement preceding the reviewers’ comments on the manuscript which is close to the most specific analysis of the reviewers.
We would be grateful if you would reply by return your willingness to review the manuscript within four weeks from now.
Sincerely yours,
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Editor of PALIAŢIA – Journal of Palliative Care