Reviewer Registration for JHD
Join the reviewer pool and support high-quality hereditary disease publishing.
What to Include in Your Reviewer Profile
Detailed profiles improve assignment quality and reviewer workload balance.
Provide your name, institution, subject expertise, and a short list of relevant publications. Include methods competence such as sequencing analysis, variant curation, biostatistics, epidemiology, or clinical genetics interpretation.
List preferred manuscript categories and realistic turnaround windows. This helps editors assign papers that match your expertise and availability.
How Reviewer Matching Works at JHD
Editorial matching uses expertise tags, availability, and conflict checks.
Profile Screening
Editorial team verifies subject fit and review scope.
Invitation Issuance
Assignments are offered based on specialization and timeline.
Availability Confirmation
Reviewers accept or decline promptly to keep workflow moving.
Profile Updates
Reviewers can update focus areas as research interests evolve.
Use institutional email and ORCID where available to strengthen profile verification. If you can review in multiple languages, include that detail to support broader manuscript coverage.
Conflict and Confidentiality Declarations
Transparent declarations support fair and credible peer review.
Disclose active collaborations, funding relationships, or advisory roles that could bias review recommendations. Manuscripts are reassigned when conflicts cannot be managed appropriately.
Reviewers are expected to keep all manuscript content confidential and avoid external discussion before publication.
How to Improve Assignment Quality
Specific reviewer profiles create faster and better review alignment.
Genetic Domain
Specify disease classes and inheritance models you evaluate confidently.
Analytic Skills
List methods such as sequencing pipelines, variant curation, or biostatistics.
Turnaround
Provide practical review timing expectations to support planning.
Conflict Notes
Disclose recurring collaborations to avoid assignment bias risks.
Keep Registration Details Current
Updated profiles improve invitation relevance and response efficiency.
Reviewers should periodically update publication highlights, method coverage, and availability windows. This improves assignment precision and avoids repeated decline cycles that slow editorial workflows.
Keep Expertise Tags Current
Updated tags improve assignment fit and reduce decline cycles.
Revising your profile when methods or research focus changes helps editors send better-matched invitations and protects review speed.
Keep Response Preferences Current
Up-to-date preferences improve invitation quality.
Reviewers should update preferred turnaround windows to support realistic assignment planning.
Register as a JHD Reviewer
Contribute your expertise to reliable hereditary disease peer review.
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