JTC provides resources to help reviewers deliver thorough, fair, and timely evaluations of thyroid cancer manuscripts.

• Assess diagnostic criteria and staging accuracy
• Check clarity of treatment protocols
• Evaluate confounder control and bias mitigation
• Review data availability statements
• Provide constructive, prioritized feedback
• Assess clarity of diagnostic criteria and staging definitions.
• Verify methodological rigor and appropriate statistical analysis.
• Check adherence to reporting guidelines such as CONSORT or STROBE.
• Comment on clinical relevance and translational impact.
• Review data availability and reproducibility statements.
• Confirm ethics approvals and patient consent disclosures.
• Provide constructive feedback and prioritize major issues.
• Assess whether confounders and biases are addressed.
• Evaluate imaging or pathology reporting completeness.
• Recommend clarifications for cohort selection or outcomes.
• Check consistency between tables, figures, and text.
• Evaluate whether conclusions overstate clinical implications.
• Suggest improvements to data presentation and figure clarity.
• Assess whether intervention descriptions are sufficient for replication.
• Assess clarity of RAI dosing and response assessments.
• Check completeness of surgical technique descriptions.
• Evaluate reporting of recurrence definitions and surveillance intervals.
• Review adequacy of molecular testing methods and validation.
• Confirm consistency between pathology findings and conclusions.
• Assess relevance of outcomes to guideline recommendations.
• Recommend clarifications on biomarker interpretation.
• Comment on patient reported outcome reporting when present.
• Assess adequacy of follow up duration for recurrence outcomes.

JTC is committed to rigorous, transparent publishing in thyroid cancer research and care. We emphasize reproducible clinical methods, clear reporting of diagnostic criteria, and ethical compliance across all article types.

The editorial office supports authors, editors, and reviewers with clear guidance and responsive communication. For questions about scope or workflow, contact [email protected].

We encourage continuous improvement in reporting practices and share updates that help the community maintain high standards in endocrine oncology, surgical outcomes, and translational thyroid research.