Scientific Relevance
Does the proposal address meaningful unresolved questions in palliative care and hospice science?
Special Issue Proposal
Proposed Special Issue
Proposed Special Issue
Journal of Palliative Care and Hospice
Design focused palliative care and hospice collections with strong scientific rationale, practical governance, and measurable publication value.
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Proposal Strategy
Propose a Special Issue in JPCH
JPCH invites focused special issue proposals that address high-priority palliative care and hospice research themes.
Strong proposals define clear scope boundaries, expected contribution types, and measurable field value.
Guest editor teams should demonstrate thematic expertise, review governance readiness, and conflict transparency.
Proposals are assessed for scientific coherence, feasibility, and expected impact on readership and citation use.
Proposal Requirements
What to Include for Evaluation
Complete proposals improve review speed and planning quality.
- Working title and concise thematic rationale.
- Guest editor names, affiliations, and expertise relevance.
- Indicative manuscript categories and expected submission volume.
- Contributor outreach strategy and timeline assumptions.
- Milestones for launch, review cadence, and release schedule.
- Conflict disclosure and governance controls.
Quality signal: focused themes with translational relevance usually perform best.
Editorial Criteria
How Proposals Are Assessed
Approval balances scientific value with operational feasibility and governance quality.
Thematic Coherence
Will accepted manuscripts form an integrated and useful collection?
Leadership Capability
Can guest editors maintain quality, fairness, and timeline reliability?
Pipeline Credibility
Is there a realistic contributor pipeline for high-quality submissions?
Submission Planning
Execution Notes for Higher Acceptance Readiness
Use these practical notes to improve clarity, policy alignment, and review efficiency before final upload.
Editorial planning insight: Strong proposals define specific objectives, measurable outcomes, and thematic boundaries. This approach helps editors and reviewers evaluate the manuscript faster without sacrificing rigor.
Author workflow guidance: Guest editor teams should demonstrate complementary expertise and conflict governance readiness. Teams that apply this step early usually reduce revision friction and protect publication timelines.
Quality acceleration note: Realistic contributor outreach and timeline planning are critical approval factors. The same practice also improves metadata quality and downstream indexing discoverability.
Submission strategy point: Focused themes with practical translational relevance usually produce stronger collections. It supports stronger decision transparency and more efficient peer-review communications.
Publication readiness reminder: Quality controls should be explicit before special issue launch. This improves consistency between core manuscript sections and supporting files.
Operational recommendation: For proposed special issue planning, document reviewer-response changes against exact manuscript locations; state practical limitations and boundary conditions explicitly. This supports cleaner editorial decisions and faster acceptance readiness.
Reviewer-facing clarity note: For proposed special issue planning, confirm metadata fields and author identifiers before production lock; ensure data and code availability statements match policy language. This improves downstream indexing quality and retrieval relevance.
Production planning guidance: For proposed special issue planning, tighten conclusion language so claims remain proportional to data strength; ensure data and code availability statements match policy language. This improves downstream indexing quality and retrieval relevance.
Propose a JPCH Special Issue
Submit your concept and the editorial team will evaluate fit, feasibility, and impact potential.
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