Theme Fit Screening
Editors confirm relevance before full review assignment.
Special Issue Submission
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Journal of Palliative Care and Hospice
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Collection Submission
Submit to a JPCH Special Issue
Special issue submissions follow full peer review standards with additional thematic-fit checks.
Authors should explain how findings advance the collections objective and extend existing evidence.
Strong submissions combine method quality with practical implications for palliative care and hospice development and translational use.
Collection manuscripts are evaluated on both scientific rigor and thematic contribution quality.
Submission Checklist
What Improves Editorial Routing
Complete packaging reduces avoidable clarification rounds.
- Identify the target special issue title in cover communication.
- State thematic contribution in one concise paragraph.
- Provide complete ethics, disclosure, and funding statements.
- Ensure figures, tables, and supplementary files are review-ready.
- Use theme-aligned keywords for better collection discovery.
- Validate all author metadata before final upload.
Review Path
How Collection Papers Are Evaluated
Collection manuscripts move through focused triage and specialist review.
Specialist Reviewer Routing
Reviewers are selected by topic and methodological alignment.
Decision and Revision
Authors receive targeted updates required for publication readiness.
Release Scheduling
Accepted papers are queued according to collection timeline and production status.
Clear thematic alignment and reporting discipline are major drivers of faster collection decisions.
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: Authors should clearly map manuscript contribution to special issue objectives in cover communication. This approach helps editors and reviewers evaluate the manuscript faster without sacrificing rigor.
Author workflow guidance: Theme-aligned keyword strategy improves collection discoverability and navigation. Teams that apply this step early usually reduce revision friction and protect publication timelines.
Quality acceleration note: Complex methods should include concise supplementary context for reviewer verification. The same practice also improves metadata quality and downstream indexing discoverability.
Submission strategy point: Consistent metadata across related submissions improves editorial throughput. It supports stronger decision transparency and more efficient peer-review communications.
Publication readiness reminder: APC planning helps avoid delays near special issue release windows. This improves consistency between core manuscript sections and supporting files.
Operational recommendation: For submit 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 submit 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 submit 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.
Editorial planning insight: For submit special issue planning, align title, abstract, and keyword language with the primary evidence claim; verify that tables, figures, and narrative statements remain consistent. This protects release schedules by reducing production-stage rework.
Submit to a JPCH Special Issue
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