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Pre-submission feedback contribution

Substantive intellectual input — comments, critique, suggested revisions, or methodological advice — provided by a colleague on a draft manuscript or proposal before it is submitted to a journal or funder, recognised in acknowledgements rather than as authorship.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
A senior colleague who read three drafts and proposed restructuring the discussion, acknowledged by name with consent

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A casual 'looks good' email response is not pre-submission feedback in the creditable sense

Editorial commentary

Pre-submission feedback covers the spectrum from quick read-throughs to deep methodological critique. Where the feedback materially changed the work, named acknowledgement (with consent) is the standard credit; where it rose to substantive intellectual contribution to the work’s claims, authorship may be warranted.

References

ICMJE Recommendations (2024)
COPE Authorship Discussion Document (2019)

Also known as

Draft feedback · Pre-submission review

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="Pre-submission feedback contribution"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/pre-submission-feedback-contribution" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "name": "Pre-submission feedback contribution",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/pre-submission-feedback-contribution",
  "description": "Substantive intellectual input — comments, critique, suggested revisions, or methodological advice — provided by a colleague on a draft manuscript or proposal before it is submitted to a journal or funder, recognised in acknowledgements rather than as authorship.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/credit-extensions-and-adjacent-contribution-vocabularies/",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/pre-submission-feedback-contribution",
  "sameAs": [
    "Draft feedback",
    "Pre-submission review"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}

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