Author feedback

After every published paper we ask the corresponding author what the process was like. This page carries the answers, the questionnaire they come from and the rules we publish them under.

Who we ask

Authors of published articles receive the full questionnaire once their article is live, with one reminder after fourteen days and then silence. A signed rejection carries three short questions in its last paragraph instead, about the decision letter and about how we handled the submission. The numbers on this page and on the journal home come from the published authors and say so. The answers to those three questions stay with the editors. Without them we would hear only from the authors whose papers we accepted.

One questionnaire goes out per paper, to the corresponding author, who is free to pass it to whoever handled the submission. Answers are linked to that submission, which is what makes it possible to read them against the record of the review. Nobody is asked to identify themselves again.

What we publish, and when

Nothing at all is published below ten responses. From ten responses upward we publish the aggregate figures, which are the means and the top-two-box shares of the core items. Every figure carries its own count, the window it was collected in and the response rate, because a share without its denominator is decoration.

From fifteen responses we release the anonymised item-level dataset with the core items and the coarse context of each response. Free-text answers are never part of it. From thirty responses the stratifying covariates join the release and the published breakdowns, and any group holding fewer than three records is withheld. Disclosure control runs with sdcMicro before every release, and the release is repeated once a year on the larger set.

The comparison item asks how the review compared with the last journal the author submitted to. Its published figure counts every author who answered it, including those who had no comparison to make, so it is a share of all of them and never of a selected few.

What happens to your answers

Answers are linked to the submission they belong to and are read only by the editors of this journal. They are published as aggregates of ten or more responses, never with a name. Free-text answers are quoted on the site only with the author's explicit permission, given on the form itself, and an editor checks any quote for identifying detail before it is used.

We keep the answers as long as the journal exists and never pass them to third parties. You can ask editorial@fairpressjournals.com to delete your answers at any time. What the review process itself looks like is described in the peer-review policy.

The results so far

The first results appear here once ten authors have answered.

The questionnaire

Core items keep their wording and their scale for good. Anything we add later joins as a module with its own version, and every response stores the version it was answered under. This is version 1.0 of the instrument, and the file the form is built from is published as questionnaire-v1.0.json.

The core items, with the scale each one is answered on.