Peer review policy

Acta Oncologica uses single-blinded review. This means that the reviewers’ names are anonymized to the author, but the reviewer knows who the author is.

There are two main aims of the peer review: to assist in selecting papers suitable for publication in Acta Oncologica and to support the improvement of the manuscripts. We ask the reviewers to assess the quality, validity, and relevance of the manuscript at hand, and to motivate any major criticism conveyed to the authors. Their focus should thus be on the originality, presentation, and relevance to the readership of the journal and on the accuracy of the methodology. More specifically, the reviewers will be asked to rate the paper concerning:

• Design and quality of data
• Adequate discussion and conclusion
• Methodology
• Importance of the study with respect to new information or valuable confirmation

Guidelines for Reviewers

• In your comments to the authors, please provide general aspects and a short summary of your comments on the manuscript. Thereafter, please provide Major comments on the Abstract, Introduction, Methods and Materials, Results, and Discussion. Finally, please provide Minor comments on the manuscript.
• Please consider the title of the manuscript, which should be informative, short and attractive.  
• Please check whether similar or overlapping data have been published to avoid double publication.
• If you do not consider the manuscript suitable for publication, please feel free to provide confidential information to the editor explaining your reasons.