All our reviews are published open access, like all content at @cp-patterns.bsky.social. Our article processing charge (APC) is usually waived for invited reviews. Authors who want to submit but find our APC a barrier should contact us at [email protected]. 9/n

Regarding length, we usually advise that reviews stay under 10,000 words and 150 references, but we are willing to make exceptions. See this survey of multilingual LLMs for an example of a longer, survey-style review paper published at the journal: www.cell.com/patterns/ful... 8/n

Authors are permitted to use tools to help automate paper selection. AI tools, when used at any stage in manuscript preparation, must be declared per Elsevier policies. Use of open source tools is encouraged (see e.g. the recent paper on ASReview 2.0 www.cell.com/patterns/ful...). 7/n

We generally do not consider systematic reviews, but we do make exceptions on a case-by-case basis for highly valuable survey papers. 6/n

The quality & novelty of the review are, of course, also crucial. We prefer reviews that synthesize and highlight the best works in a field, rather than just listing. See some tips on writing a great review from our colleagues at the Trends journals: www.elsevier.com/connect/six-... 5/n

Only a minority of submissions will be chosen for in-depth peer-review. We select for reviews that are on topics that we feel will be of broad interest to our readers and which are written by researchers with experience & authority on the topic. 4/n

Many reviews published at the journal are invited, but spontaneous submissions are welcome. Visit our information for authors page to learn more about submitting to the journal: www.cell.com/patterns/inf... 3/n

First, we are definitely glad to receive submissions of high-quality literature review papers! Past reviews published at the journal can be browsed here: www.cell.com/action/doSea... 2/n

I wouldn't allow it. It will print poorly, and unless the rest of the journal is dark-backgrounded, you're forcing the readers' eyes to transition from a white page to this. This particular figure would also benefit from a more careful vector-graphics rendering of the labels...