Scholarly publication is seldom explained in the literature. There are only vaque information available about peer review which has to do with submitting the document to a third party. A more technical oriented document workflow is oriented on freezing a paper which should be explained briefly.
Similar to a code freeze in software engineering, a document freeze means to stop any edits in the document. The only allowed activities after a document freeze are:
- proofreading
- layout formatting, e.g. change the fontsize and rearrange the figures
- peer review
It depends on the concrete pipeline how much effort is put into proofreading and peer review. Fixing all the typo error including the grammar mistakes can be a time consuming activity. And reformulating the content in response to peer critiques might also be a demanding challenge. Nevertheless, most academic papers have a freeze period in which some of these activities are realized in the hope to improve the quality of the final document.
Freezing a document means simply that it remains unchanged for a longer time period which are weeks upto months. During this period, the content gets outdated automatically. Peer review is only a fraction of the overall freeze process.
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