Overview

All submissions are screened to ensure they meet basic standards of manuscript presentation and are also processed through Crossref Similarity Check. Manuscripts are then evaluated by the Co-Editors-in-Chief (Co-EICs) and editorial board members (EBMs) to ensure they meet the journal's rigorous scientific standards and are eligible for peer review. Manuscripts that meet these criteria are reviewed (single-anonymous) by at least two referees selected by the EBM based on their expertise in the topic. The referees provide detailed comments and recommendations to help the EBM arrive at the appropriate editorial decision. Revised manuscripts are evaluated by the EBM and may be sent to the original or new referees. The Deputy Editors will make final decision to accept or reject a submission.

Authors should carefully address all reviewer comments when submitting a revised manuscript.

Authors may appeal to the EBM or Co-EiCs to reconsider a rejection decision if they believe that the reviewers have seriously misjudged the manuscript. Please contact the editorial office (aijournal@xidian.edu.cn) to initiate the appeal process. All appeals will be given careful consideration. The EBM and/or Co-EiCs will determine if further consideration is merited or if the original decision should stand.

Submissions from editors or members of the editorial board are handled by an EBM who is not connected with the manuscript to ensure that such submissions receive an objective and unbiased evaluation. Information about the review process for such submissions is redacted from the view of any editors or EBMs who are authors of the paper within the journal's online submission and review system.

Revised Manuscripts

When submitting a revised manuscript, authors must include a “response letter” that addresses the reviewers’ comments on a point-by-point basis. The following guidelines are provided to assist you in writing an appropriate response letter.

First, you should be aware that the response letter will be read by the assistant editors, topical editors, and sometimes the original reviewers, if the paper requires re-review. It will be easier for the editors and reviewers to evaluate your revised manuscript if you provide a well-written and detailed response letter that thoroughly addresses the reviewers’ comments. The response letter connects the revised

with the reviewers’ comments and the original paper. When an editor or reviewer reads the response letter, they should be able to easily determine what comments were raised by the reviewers, how the authors addressed these comments, and where the revisions are located in the manuscript corresponding to each comment.

Here are some additional tips:

1.Answer the reviewers’ comments item by item, in the order presented by the reviewers. Avoid mixing all the questions together and answering them in your own order. Although this may seem more logical to you, it will make it more difficult for the editors to determine whether you have adequately addressed the reviewers’ comments.

2.Take the reviewers’ comments seriously and answer them all completely. Avoid simply answering “Ok” or “Yes” to the questions. At the very least, you should indicate where you made changes in the manuscript corresponding to each reviewer comment.

3.Read your response letter several times to ensure you have addressed all the reviewers’ comments and have not made any typos or grammatical mistakes.

After Acceptance

Open Access

Advanced Imaging is an open access journal. The articles are published under a CC BY license (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License). The CC BY license is preferred by many research funding bodies. It allows for maximum dissemination and re-use of open access materials: users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit) and remix (adapt) the contribution including for commercial purposes, providing they attribute the contribution in the manner specified by the author or licensor.

Under Creative Commons licenses, authors retain copyright in their work. Authors should note that some funders require papers to be published under a specific license and so should check the funder mandate to ensure compliance.

Author Proofs

Accepted papers are immediately sent into production, where they are professionally copyedited and typeset in XML. It usually takes 14 days after acceptance to generate the first proof. The corresponding author will be notified by email when the proof is ready to review. Changes should be kept to a minimum. Additions or subtractions of large portions of text may require re-review.

Promote Your Research

Here are some ways you can publicize your new article:

Share your article on social media.

Write an article summary to share with your institution’s communications or PR office.

Update your online CV and website to include a complete citation to the article.

Inform your institution that it has been published so that it may be added to any lists of publications they maintain and disseminate.

Create a 90-second Explainer Video to be published with your paper and shared on social media.

If you need any help regarding promoting your work, you are welcome to contact the staff from Chinese Laser Press via ai@clp.ac.cn.

Corrections and Retractions

As a publisher, Chinese Laser Press has an obligation to maintain the integrity of the scholarly record, and will make changes to published articles in certain circumstances, as described here.

Errata

An erratum describes corrections to a published paper resulting from errors with data or interpretation, omissions of information, or any other technical error. An erratum may be initiated by the author, a reader, or an editor, but must have the author’s approval. These statements are published separately from the original paper and include a citation to the original article. When an erratum is published, the original work will also, whenever possible, be corrected and republished with a Corrected date on the PDF, which helps to prevent future duplication of the error.

Any changes to the author list post-publication require approval from all authors and the Editor in Chief, and are at the discretion of the Publisher.

Errata are free to read.

Publisher's Note

When an error in a paper is initiated by the publisher, such as something inadvertently introduced during copyediting or typesetting, and the error impacts the integrity of the article, a Publisher’s Note may be issued. In this case, the original article will be corrected and republished online with a Corrected date on the PDF. The Publisher’s Note will describe the change and include a citation and link to the original article. Publisher’s Notes are free to read.

Retraction

Retractions can be initiated by a journal editor, author, publisher, or an author’s institution. The journal editor may consider retraction if they have clear evidence that the paper’s findings are unreliable, either as a result of a major error, or as a result of fabrication or falsification. Other reasons for retraction include plagiarism; previously reported findings, without proper attribution; unauthorized data or material; copyright infringement; work published solely on the basis of a compromised or manipulated peer review process; the authors failed to disclose a significant conflict of interest; or egregious dishonesty surrounding authorship, including paid authorship or listing authors without their permission. These reasons for retraction are in line with the Council of Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines on retraction.

In the case of retraction, the PDF of the original paper will be republished with a “Retracted” watermark across all pages, and the word “Retracted” will be added to the paper title. The online version of the article will be replaced by a retraction notice that includes the full citation of the original paper and the reason the paper is retracted. The retraction notice will effectively replace the original paper, with the same DOI and citation information.

Prior to retraction, authors will be given an opportunity to respond and appeal, but retraction does not require unanimous agreement of the authors. Retraction notices are free to read.