Response-to-Reviewers Planner
Paste your reviewer comments, and this tool will help you plan a response for each one — the required action, the likely manuscript change, and a suggested response strategy — plus overall guidance for structuring your response letter.
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Our publication support team can help you draft a complete, submission-ready response to reviewers.
How it works
- 1Paste the reviewer comments you need to respond to.
- 2Click Analyze.
- 3Review the comment-by-comment plan and overall response letter strategy.
Who this is for
- ✓Planning a point-by-point response letter before you start writing it.
- ✓Making sure every comment gets a clear, matched action.
- ✓Thinking through how to phrase a response to a difficult comment.
What Goes Into a Point-by-Point Response Letter
Most journals expect a response organized comment by comment: each reviewer comment quoted or paraphrased, followed by the action taken and, where relevant, the exact location of the change in the revised manuscript. Editors and reviewers doing a second-round review typically skim this letter before the manuscript itself, so a response that's easy to scan against the original comments — rather than a general narrative about the revision — tends to get through review faster.
Not Every Comment Needs a Manuscript Change
Some comments call for an edit to the text, a new analysis, or an added citation. Others are better addressed with a clear, respectful explanation of why no change was made — for example, when a suggested analysis is outside the study's scope, or when a reviewer's concern rests on a misreading the response can clarify. Treating every comment as if it demands a rewrite can weaken a response letter as much as ignoring a comment entirely; the planning step is deciding which kind of response each comment actually needs.
What This Tool Can and Can't Replace
This tool can only plan a response strategy from the comments you paste — it doesn't know what changes you've actually made to your manuscript, can't verify that a proposed response is scientifically accurate, and won't draft the final letter in your own voice. Use its plan as a starting structure, then write and check the substance of each response yourself, or with your co-authors or advisor, before submitting.
For more on formatting a point-by-point letter and deciding when to push back on a comment rather than change the manuscript, see the full guide to responding to peer reviewer comments. Read the guide →
Frequently asked questions
It plans the structure and strategy for each comment, not a finished, submission-ready letter — you should still write the final response in your own voice, referencing your actual manuscript changes.
No — it can only suggest the kind of change a comment likely calls for. It never claims to know or invents what you specifically changed.