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Bioenergetics Communications is the Open Science journal on bioenergetics and mitochondrial physiology with Living Communications - ISSN 2791-4690

BEC reviewers

Bioenergetics Communications is the Oroboros Ecosystem journal for publishing and sharing scientific and technical advances in bioenergetics, mitochondrial physiology, and particularly high-resolution respirometry

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The following questions have been adapted from the reviewer forms of the Journal of Applied Physiology and Pflugers Archive European Journal of Physiology.

Reviewer's assessment

1. Manuscript #
2. Submission Date
3. Current Stage
4. Title
5. Category
6. Contributing Authors
7. Associate Editor

Recommendation

BEC spedific

• Is the topic suitable for the journal's aims and scope?

1. Yes
2. No

Scientific content

1. Original
2. Confirmatory
3. Too preliminary
4. Trivial

Experimental approach

1. Innovative
2. Advanced
3. Standard
4. Inadequate

Presentation of the data

1. Adequate
2. Not appropriate

Conclusions

1. Justified
2. Too speculative
3. Unjustified

References

1. Adequate
2. Incomplete
3. Too many

Figures and tables

1. Well prepared
2. Poor
3. Too many

Abstract

1. Clear and concise
2. Clumsy
3. Too long

Language

1. Acceptable
2. In need of minor corrections
3. In need of language editing

Length of the manuscript

1. Adequate
2. Too short
3. Too long

General rating

1. Accept
2. Minor revision
3. Major revision
4. Reject

Overall evaluation

1. Excellent
2. Good
3. Average
4. Poor

Ethics questions

• For animal studies and human studies, has ethical approval been obtained and so stated in the paper? For human studies has obtaining of written, informed subject consent been noted in the paper?

1. Yes
2. No
3. N/A

Review comments

• Confidential comments to the editor

• Please elaborate on your evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the manuscript and how the research will contribute to the field.

1. Strengths:
2. Weaknesses:

• Open review

• Include in your critique your judgment of the significance of the findings, the clarity of the rationale and hypotheses, accuracy of the experimental design, methods and statistical analysis, quality of data presentation, length and quality of Discussion, and inclusion of appropriate references.

• Please make clear any specific comments for revision.

Bioenergetics Communications is part of the H2020 NextGen-O2k project