Advanced Materials Revision (advmat-revision)

When to trigger

• Reviewer reports and an editor decision (major/minor revision, or reject) have arrived
• You need a point-by-point response and a marked-up manuscript
• Referees asked for additional characterization, benchmarking, or stability data
• The decision is a rejection and you must decide: appeal, revise-and-resubmit, or transfer
• A coauthor is drafting rebuttal language before the manuscript has actually changed

Read the decision before the reports

The editor's letter sets the terms; read it first.

• Minor revision — largely presentational or small additions; turn it around promptly and precisely.
• Major revision — substantive concerns; usually requires new data (added characterization, controls, stability). Address the science first, the prose second.
• Reject with encouragement to resubmit — treat as a major revision with a higher bar; the resubmission is judged largely on whether the core objection is truly resolved.
• Reject — decide between a reasoned appeal (only if the editor/referee made a clear factual error) and a transfer to a sibling Wiley journal (Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Sci., Small, AMI), which may carry the reviews with it.