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If Small (Wiley) sent your manuscript back as a major revision, here is what the decision means, your revision window, how the Wiley professional editor and original reviewers re-review the nanomaterial novelty and application performance, and how to write the point-by-point response that survives a second round.

If the Elsevier journal Energy sent your manuscript back as a major revision, here is what the decision means, your revision deadline, how the handling editor and original reviewers re-review system-level value and techno-economics, and how to write the point-by-point response that survives a second round.

If Construction and Building Materials sent your manuscript back as a major revision, here is what the decision means, your revision window, how the Elsevier handling editor and original reviewers re-review the standards and durability evidence, and how to write the point-by-point response that survives a second round.

If Applied Energy sent your manuscript back as a major revision, here is what the decision means, your revision deadline, how the Elsevier handling editor and original reviewers re-review applied-energy value and techno-economics, and how to write the point-by-point response that survives a second round.

If Analytical Chemistry sent your manuscript back as a major revision, here is what the decision means, your resubmission window, how the ACS Associate Editor and original reviewers re-review the method validation, and how to write the point-by-point response that survives a second round.

If Physical Review B sent your manuscript back as a major revision, here is what the decision means, your 90-day resubmission window, how the divisional associate editor and original referees re-review, and how to write the response to referees that survives a second round.

If The Lancet sent your manuscript back as a major revision, here is what the decision means, your revision deadline, how the clinical reviewers and the statistical reviewer re-review, and how to write the point-by-point response that survives a second round.

If Angewandte Chemie sent your manuscript back as a major revision, here is what the decision means, your revision deadline, how the Wiley-VCH handling editor and original referees re-review under strict single-anonymous review, and how to write the point-by-point response that survives a second round.

If Environmental Science & Technology sent your manuscript back as a major revision, here is what the decision means, your revision deadline, how the ACS Associate Editor and original reviewers re-review environmental significance and analytical validation, and how to write the point-by-point response that survives a second round.

If Advanced Functional Materials sent your manuscript back as a major revision, here is what the decision means, your revision deadline, how the Wiley professional in-house editor and original reviewers re-review functional advance and benchmarks, and how to write the point-by-point response that survives a second round.

If your PNAS submission shows With Editor, the manuscript is in editorial screening with an NAS Editorial Board member before any referee is invited. Here is what that decision involves and when the wait is normal.

If Science of the Total Environment sent your manuscript back as a major revision, here is what the decision means, your roughly two-to-three-month window, how the Elsevier handling editor and original reviewers re-review, and how to write the point-by-point response that survives a second round.

If NEJM sent your manuscript back as a major revision, here is what the decision means, your revision deadline, how clinical reviewers and the in-house statistical reviewers re-review, and how to write the point-by-point response that survives a second round.

If BMJ Open sent your manuscript back as a major revision, here is what the decision means under open peer review, your odds, the deadline, and how to write a response that holds up when reviewer reports are published.

If your Scientific Reports submission shows With Editor, the manuscript is in the initial quality check and Editorial Board Member screen before any referee is invited. Here is what that decision involves and when the wait is normal.

If you are tracking the 'With Editor' phase at Nature Communications, your paper is in the handling-editor desk screen inside the Under Consideration label, before any referee is invited. Here is what that decision involves and when the wait is normal.

If Scientific Reports sent your manuscript back as a major revision, here is what the decision means under its soundness-only model, the deadline, how the Editorial Board Member re-reviews, and how to write the point-by-point response to reviewers that wins.

If your Angewandte Chemie submission shows With Editor in ScholarOne, the manuscript is in the Wiley-VCH handling-editor desk screen, where cover-letter novelty is decisive, before any referee is invited. Here is what that decision involves and when the wait is normal.

If Cell sent your manuscript back as a major revision, here is what the decision means, your 2-to-3-month revision window, the one-major-revision limit, how the original Cell Press reviewers re-review, and how to write the point-by-point response to reviewers that survives a second round.

If your PNAS manuscript came back as a major revision, here is what the decision means, your two-month resubmission deadline, how the original reviewers re-review, and how to write the point-by-point response that survives a second round.