“Revise before review; Reject without review; Reject after review”: why manuscripts are rejected

Big shoes to fill

“…Martin's tenure saw the change to publishing with the Springer-Nature publishing house which now handles such tasks, including managing an online submission system (Editorial Manager) and the move to online publishing [8]. Martin also grew the use of editorials, which is an important avenue for people to share their wisdom on a variety of topics [5,[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19], including Martin's own wisdom gained in his role [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31].…”

Choosing the appropriate peer-reviewed journal for submission of your manuscript

“…Sometimes we reject a submitted manuscript without reviewing it because we decide that it falls outside of the medical physics and biomedical engineering areas in which APESM publishes and hence we don't have the expertise to manage the peer-review of the manuscript [2]. That is, the authors of a submitted manuscript have misjudged the sort of content that is likely to be published in APESM.…”