amann-review-process

1# The Annals Review Process (amann-review-process)
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3## When to trigger
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5- You are deciding whether to start now or wait for the next deadline
6- You need to understand who reviews what, when, and how blinding changes between stages
7- You are planning a realistic timeline from proposal to published review
8- A coauthor assumes Annals works like a normal journal (it does not)
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10## The two-step process is the defining feature
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12Annals does not accept full reviews cold. Intake is a **gated, two-step process** (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准):
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14| Stage | What happens | Blinding & reviewers | Output |
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16| **1. Proposal** | Submit a ≤5-page proposal (four headings) at a deadline | **Double-blind**, reviewed by the **Associate Editors** | Invitation to develop the full review, or decline |
17| **2. Invited full review** | Develop the ~50-page review with editorial guidance | **Forgoes double-blind**; read by the **Associate Editor and Editor** | Conditional acceptance / revisions / decline |
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19The consequences are large: most of the *gatekeeping* happens at the lightweight proposal stage, and most of the *development* happens collaboratively with an editor who already endorsed the idea. This is closer to commissioning than to ordinary peer review — you are co-building an invited piece, not throwing a finished manuscript over the wall.
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21## The cadence
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