General Information

Thank you for agreeing to review a paper for ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. The Editorial Board of TAP is committed to publishing the most interesting and stimulating papers in applied perception.

Efficient reviewing is essential to the success of TAP. To publish papers in a timely fashion we ask reviewers to complete their review within four weeks.

Please treat the material in a submitted paper as confidential. Once you have read the paper and it is in your head it is impossible to pretend you have not absorbed the information. But please make every conscious effort not to use or build upon the material in the paper until it has seen publication.

Please write clear reviews that are meaningful for the authors. Speak in particulars, not generalities. Never characterize the authors. Give constructive criticism when discussing a problem. If there are major flaws, identify them as clearly as possible.

Review structure

Please structure your review according to the following points:

• 1. Short summary of the paper (2 paragraphs maximum).
• 2. What are the major contributions of the paper?
• 3. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the paper?
• Does the paper fit within the aims and scope of TAP?
• Does the work have a perceptual component?
• Is the work technically sound?
• Is the experimental design and analysis adequate?
• Is the treatment of the subject complete?
• Does the paper cite and use appropriate references?
• Is the quality of the presentation adequate?
• 4. Suggestions for improvement
• Clarity of presentation (writing style, figures)
• Length of the paper
• 5. Overall recommendation

Rarely do all reviewers agree on a submission, so the detailed evaluation of the merits and deficiencies of a paper is needed. If you like the paper immensely, do not assume other reviewers will feel the same way. Describe in detail what you think is important about it and how it will contribute to theory or practice. If you are sure the paper should be rejected, you should explain why, politely, but in detail, because other reviewers may recommend acceptance. Often, first submissions receive a Revise and Resubmit recommendation; for the authors of these papers, your detailed comments will be of tremendous use in guiding the revision of their work.

The tone of your review is very important to our effort to create a community of scholars and practitioners. It is always possible to be constructive and firm without being hostile. Keep in mind that often the problem could be primarily in communication. Even in the worst case, where the work cannot be salvaged, one can explain how better to design related research.

Review tracking system

• TO LOG IN FOR THE FIRST TIME:
  • Go to http://acm.manuscriptcentral.com/ and fill in the User ID.
  • Click on the 'Check for existing account' button to retrieve your password.
  • Change your password by clicking on the appropriate button.
  • Edit your address information and area of expertise by clicking the appropriate buttons.

• TO ACCESS THE MANUSCRIPT:
  • Go to http://acm.manuscriptcentral.com/ and log in with your user ID
  • Click 'Reviewer Center' from the main menu
  • Click the underlined title and then the file name to download the manuscript

• TO ACCESS RESPONSES TO PREVIOUS REVIEWS
  (only applicable when reviewing a revised manuscript)
  • Click the 'Review' button in the reviewer center
  • Click 'View Manuscript Info'
  • In the 'Manuscript History' section, click the 'Response to Reviewers' button

• TO SUBMIT YOUR REVIEW:
  • Go to http://acm.manuscriptcentral.com/ and log in with your user ID
  • Click 'Reviewer Center' from the main menu
  • Click the 'Score Manuscript' button
  • Complete the review form and click the 'Save Review' button
  • Click the 'Submit Review to Associate Editor' button if you are finished with your review, or click 'Leave Open' to continue your review later.

Further information

If you have any questions regarding the review tracking system, please view the ScholarOne tutorial for referees: Referee tutorial

This and other tutorials regarding the Manuscript Central review tracking system can be found at ScholarOne's Support Central.

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For problems with this page, contact:
Roland W. Fleming, On-Line Editor roland.fleming@tuebingen.mpg.de
Last change: July 21, 2004

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