Review Procedure
All abstracts submitted to the CRS Annual Meeting will go through a rigorous review procedure to maintain the highest scientific quality of the meeting. Submitted abstracts must meet the following minimum requirements:
- Significant and original contribution within the scope of the Controlled Release Society
- Abstract submitted by the deadline
- Written in clear English
- Few syntax/spelling mistakes
- Sufficient data presented, adequately analyzed and discussed with appropriate conclusions supported by the data
- Meets format guidelines
- Contains data (tables, figure, image, or specific numbers in text)
- Contains tables and figures, clearly presented, to support the data
Abstract Review - The abstract will be read and scored by the CRS Program Review Committee and will be assigned a score based on the following assessment criteria for scientific content.
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5 |
Ground-breaking research of outstanding quality providing a new perspective in a new or emerging field. |
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4 |
New research of outstanding quality providing a new perspective in an existing field or new research of high quality in a new or emerging field. |
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3 |
New research of high quality providing an enhancement of current understanding in an existing field. |
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2 |
Research providing support of current understanding; representing modest or no addition to current understanding in an existing field over and above previously published work; not sufficiently significant and/or original research. |
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1 |
Abstract does not comply with minimum submission instructions, is not submitted in the proper format, and/or does not include all required fields. A score of 1 will result in the rejection of an abstract. |
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