The mission of Oncotarget aims to maximize research impact through insightful peer-review, eliminate borders between specialties by linking different fields of oncology and biomedical science, and foster application of basic and clinical science.
This mission cannot be accomplished without following strong ethical standards.
Scientific integrity is a crucial component of scholarly publishing. At Oncotarget, a growing industry of digital technologies, tools, and ideas are constantly being added to our robust scientific integrity process.
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Oncotarget peer review policy statements are easily accessible from the main navigation panel on the home page of the journal (for reference, please see the Publication Ethics Statements and Editorial Policies pages on our website.
In summary: Editors select experts in the field, based on their published work. After receiving an average of 3-4 (at least 2 and for some papers more than 4) reviews, Editors make decisions as to whether the paper must be rejected outright or should be returned to the authors for revision. After revision and resubmission, the Editors send the revised article and the authors' detailed responses back to the reviewers for their comments. No more than 3 rounds of revision are allowed, after which the Editors must make a final decision. Editors do not participate in the peer review or decision-making for their own manuscripts.
Oncotarget uses single blind peer review. It is a conventional method of peer review. In this type of peer review the authors do not know who the reviewers are. However, the reviewers know who the authors are.
Oncotarget utilizes a submission system created by eJournalPress (EJP) to facilitate the peer review process. The login portal for the submission system can be found on the journal homepage.
Testimonials from authors about Oncotarget's peer-review process can be found by visiting our Videos with Outstanding Authors web page.
Oncotarget also uses a tracking manuscript system (JPS) created by eJournalPress to track all accepted manuscripts to maintain a quick and efficient publication process.
Impact Journals has also developed multiple sophisticated in-house tools to screen newly submitted tables and images against content that exists already both on the Internet and in our own journals.
In summary:
We typically perform 3 types of image forensics for the papers:
Oncotarget continues to search for new digital technologies and new ideas to maintain and improve on the high scientific standards we strive to achieve when publishing papers.
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