Reviewers' Guidelines
1. In order to guarantee the fairness of the peer review process, reviewers have interest conflicts with any of the authors should decline to review. If one is unsure whether something constitutes a relevant interest, please seek advice from the editorial office at aijournal@xidian.edu.cn
2. Advanced Imaging is pursuing a timely publication. Please try to complete the review in a reasonable time-frame. If reviewers couldn't complete it in the given time, please contact the editor or staff at aijournal@xidian.edu.cn for an extension.
3. Please read the Acceptance Criteria of Advanced Imaging before reviewing.
4. Please provide evidences with appropriate references to substantiate general statements. Detailed review comments should be in line with the recommendations.
5. Please ensure the review comments fair and unbiased.
6. Please keep all manuscript and review details confidential.
Acceptance Criteria
Submitted manuscripts should substantially advance fundamental or applied optics science by meeting one or more of the following criteria:
- Open a new research area, or a new avenue within an established area.
- Solve, or make essential steps towards solving, a critical problem.
- Introduce techniques or methods with significant impact.
- Introduce novel engineering capabilities, computational concepts, techniques materials, or methodologies of exceptional importance to the topical area(s) of the journal;
- Be of intrinsic interest to Advanced Imaging's broad audience.
Peer Review Process
1. First Review
Manuscripts are screened by the editorial office regarding the manuscript format and the duplication rate. Manuscripts are then preliminarily evaluated by the editors-in-chief and editorial board members to ensure they meet the journal's rigorous scientific standards and are eligible for peer review.
2. Peer Review
Manuscripts that meet these criteria are single-blind reviewed by at least two referees. The referees provide detailed comments and recommendations to help the editorial board members arrive at the appropriate editorial decision.
3. Author Revision
Authors should carefully address all reviewer comments when submitting a revised manuscript.
4. Re-review
Revised manuscripts are evaluated by the editorial board members and may be sent to the original or new referees. The editors-in-chief have the ultimate authority to accept or reject a submission.
5. Appeal:
Authors may appeal to the editorial office to reconsider a rejection decision if they believe that the reviewers have seriously misjudged the manuscript. All appeals will be given careful consideration. The editorial board members and/or editors-in-chief will determine if further consideration is merited or if the original decision should stand.
*Submissions from members of the editorial board are handled by an editorial board member who is not connected with the manuscript to ensure that such submissions receive an objective and unbiased evaluation. Information about the review process for such submissions is redacted from the view of any editors who are authors of the paper within the journal's online submission and review system.
How to become a reviewer
Advanced Imaging adopts ScholarOne system. If you are interested in reviewing for Advanced Imaging, please create an account here. If you have already an author or reviewer for Advanced Imaging (and/or Advanced Photonics, Chinese Optics Letters, High Power Laser Science and Engineering) in the past, you will already have an account. Once you have logged in, you may update your contact information and expertise in the system.
