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
xml
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