Bring back the objections from your previous report and cross them against the new version of your manuscript. With your case number or with the Word file of your review.
We bring back the objections from your previous report and cross them against the new version of your manuscript. We tell you which ones still point at text that has not changed and which ones no longer do. What we don't do is mark any of them resolved: that is yours to judge.
Type the number from your report —it looks like this, Q1-4H7K-9TXQ— or upload the Word file you downloaded with the review: the case file travels inside it.
or Upload the Word file you downloaded with the review
The number lives 30 days, which is how long we keep the report. The document works forever, even months later.
The same one you used for the report.
If you have the manuscript with Word's track changes on —the one the journal already asks for— upload it that way: we look only at the paragraphs you touched plus the ones each objection quoted. Without the marks it still works: we compare by the sentence each objection quoted.
Your manuscript is never stored, neither this round's nor the previous one's. What we store are the objections, which are our own text, and the sentence each one quoted. For this comparison the document does not even leave your computer.
Not checked: It was an objection about something missing: it quoted no sentence, so there is nothing to compare. Still standing.
The sentence it quoted is too short to locate unambiguously, so we have not compared it. Still standing.
Because we cannot measure it yet. Deciding that two objections are the same one, or that one no longer applies, is a rule we have not validated: it needs a corpus of manuscripts labeled twice over, and the agreement between labellers published, before we show anything of the sort. A wrong "resolved" would leave you at ease about something that is still there, and that does not surface today: it surfaces weeks later. When the validation exists, the fourth state will appear.
If you got here without a report in front of you: what a case file keeps, what it does not keep, and why one in nine manuscripts gets worse while being fixed.
The cross-check above is mechanical: it compares text. The full round reads the manuscript again with two simulated reviewers and a simulated editor, with the previous round in front of it, and adds whatever turns up.