Get Scientific Feedback

After your manuscript is posted, one of eiRxiv’s many scientific reviewers will provide constructive and supportive scientific feedback.

The goal of this feedback is to celebrate your research and writing successes and provide suggestions to make your research and writing even better.

The scientific reviewers’ feedback will answer questions like:

What do you like most about this manuscript?

In what ways does their background information support their research question / hypothesis? What additional information would be helpful for the reader?

What are the strengths of their hypothesis? How could it be improved?

What are the strengths of the experimental design? Can you think of accessible experiments or analysis that would help the authors strengthen their study?

What changes can the authors make to improve how they are communicating their scientific knowledge, results, and conclusions? Could someone who has never heard of this topic understand the main message of the paper?

What changes can the authors make to improve their writing style, grammar, or figures?

eiRxiv reviewers’ scientific feedback will be posted publicly alongside your manuscript. Preprints like eiRxiv publicly post feedback to promote transparency, increase collaboration, and make it easier to share scientific expertise.

You got scientific feedback - now what?

Read with an open mind

Even if you don’t agree with the reviewer’s suggestions, remember their goal is to help you learn and improve. Stay open to their feedback!

Look for patterns

Did the reviewer make any suggestions more than once, or are there certain areas of your manuscript that got more comments than others?

Ask for help

If you need help understanding the scientific feedback or knowing how to make improvements, ask someone for help! Your coordinating adult, senior author, mentor, or teachers can all be great resources.

Revise the manuscript and resubmit a new version to eiRxiv

If you revise your manuscript based on the scientific feedback you receive, you can upload a new version of the manuscript once. The revised manuscript will go through prereview again and, if approved, will be posted as a new version at the same DOI. New versions will not get additional scientific feedback.

Revise the manuscript and submit it to the Journal of Emerging Investigators

If you revised the manuscript based on the reviewer’s feedback and want to pursue formal publication with extensive peer-review feedback, consider submitting it to the Journal of Emerging Investigators.*

Make changes for the future

Even if you don’t revise this manuscript, you can use the feedback to make your next research project even better!

*Please note that acceptance to eiRxiv does not automatically mean your manuscript will be accepted by JEI or another journal. JEI and other journals may also have stricter guidelines for manuscript content and formatting. Please review and follow all of the guidelines and copyright regulations for your target journal before you submit your manuscript to them. Do not submit the same manuscript to another preprint.