FIG. 2.

Decision process during peer review. The peer review process reflects an interchange between peer review recommendations and author decisions. The peer review process coupled with editorial decisions not only results in the acceptance or rejection of articles (outcome), but also prompts the author to revise the article and to resubmit it to the same journal for reevaluation. Authors faced with reports calling for revision may elect to comply in whole or in part, or ignore the peer review comments and seek publication elsewhere. Authors faced with a rejected article may elect to resubmit elsewhere, with or without considering peer review feedback arising from the rejection. Authors of rejected articles may also elect to petition the editor in an informal appeal. The Rebound Peer Review, as implemented by Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, provides an alternative mechanism for the appeal of rejected articles based on an open peer review model. To see this illustration in color, the reader is referred to the web version of this article at www.liebertpub.com/ars