This check list will accompany the paper throughout the process and be filled in stage by stage by the editor and assistant editors. A second editorial board meeting should be held only after comments on articles have been received. Before this meeting, the impossible articles should have been weeded out according to comments received from editors. It should not be common practice for the editor to rewrite articles in order to make them comprehensible. If, after the weeding-out process, there are still too many articles available for the particular issue of the journal, decisions must be made at the second editorial board meeting where remaining articles are to be accepted.
Subject matter is obviously important.
The article must be of interest to the particular institution or to the field in general. Which of these two predominates will depend on the nature of the editorial policy decided on earlier. In the case of articles containing surveys or statistical information, the decision to include an article will depend on the value of the statistical information given and the scientific veracity of the conclusions reached. The authors should be informed as to whether their article has been selected or rejected. While revision is proceeding, the editor will produce the editorial and the contents page.