Reviewers
Guidelines and informations
Nutrimentum et Curae focuses on all issues related to body and mind health maintenance, and the search for all strategies – pharmacological and non-pharmacological – to find optimal nutritional and behavioral patterns for the population. It publishes novelties in basic science, surveillance, epidemiologic and intervention research, cohort studies, clinical trials, and new therapeutic options, in order to supply international researchers with a valuable platform for discussion of challenges and opportunities in the field of body and mind nutrition.
The reviewer must not have published papers in the last 5 years with none of the authors of the manuscript, must belong to different institutions from authors and must not have any conflict of interest with the content of the manuscript.
If you accept this assignment, please note that the manuscript and its’ contents must be kept confidential. Also, if you wish to have another expert co-review the manuscript with you, he has to follow these rules.
The content of this assignment may contain privileged information. It is intended only for the use of the person(s) who accept to do the revision of the manuscript.
When reviewing a paper, please try to respond to the following questions:
- What is the main topic of this manuscript? Is it relevant and interesting?
- How original is the topic? What does it add to our current knowledge?
- Is the manuscript well written? Is the text clear and easy to read? Does it need English improvement?
- Are the conclusions consistent with the results?
- Does tables or figures increase readability of the manuscript?
- Is there anything superfluous throughout the text?
Our goal is to accept very well structured papers on relevant topics.
Description of Peer Review
All contributions are initially handled by the Editor-in-Chief (EiC), who together with Associate Editors (AE) make the initial evaluation of the manuscript by verifying whether it falls within the aims of the journal; therefore, the manuscript can be submitted for peer review or rejected if it is not within the scope of the journal. To speed up the review process, only documents that meet our editorial criteria are submitted for formal peer review. Those papers judged by the editors as inappropriate are rejected promptly without external review. After this step, the EiC or an AE assigns the manuscript to 2 or 3 reviewers, among the editorial board members or external expert reviewers in the field. To be selected, reviewers must not have published papers in the last 6 years with none of the authors of the manuscript, must belong to different institutions from authors and must not have any conflict of interest with the content of the manuscript. Following the recommendations from the reviewers, the EiC, or the AE will evaluate them and have final authority on acceptance, revision or rejection. In the final editorial decision, we try to evaluate the strength of the arguments raised by each reviewer and by the authors. We may return to reviewers for further advice, particularly in cases where they disagree with each other, or where the authors believe they have been misunderstood. We take reviewers’ criticisms seriously. In cases where one reviewer alone opposes publication, we may consult the other reviewers.
Reviewer’ selection is critical to the publication process, and we base our choice on expertise, reputation and our own experience on the reviewer’s characteristics.
Reviewers must know that these messages contain confidential information and must be treated as such.
Nutrimentum et curae adopts blind peer review. Reviewers are anonymous, unless they want to identify themselves by including their names in the review on our submission system. To proceed with the review process, the selected reviewers need to declare the absence of conflict of interest
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