Manuscript Evaluation Criteria

Overall Evaluation

  • Is the subject of this paper relevant to Geophysics?
  • Does the paper contain new data or new ideas?
  • Are these up to international standards?
  • Is the presentation clear?
  • Does the author reach substantial conclusions?
  • Is the length of the paper adequate?
  • Is the English of high enough standard to be published as it stands (i.e. no copy-editing required)?
  • Are the Title and the abstract pertinent and understandable?
  • Does the author give proper credit to related work and indicate clearly his own?
  • Is the size of each figure adequate to the quality of data it contains?

Would you cite this paper as a scientific contribution?

  • Very important.
  • Fairly important.
  • May have potential after additional work and resubmission.

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