Peer Review

Academics understand the importance of publishing their work. Publications help researchers spread their ideas and gain notoriety in their field. What some might not see is that…

Although publication is a key to success in the academic world, the peer review process is not free from bias. Studies have shown that women and national minorities still face…

Peer review week was jointly initiated by ORCID, Sense About Science, Wiley, and ScienceOpen in the year 2015 to underscore the importance of peer review in maintaining the overall…

Scientists often work diligently to carefully collect and report data. Such process leads to advancements in every discipline. In particular, new biomedical manuscripts are subject…

Synlett, an international chemistry journal published by Thieme, has successfully tried a new form of peer review aimed to make manuscript assessment faster and fairer. The…

In just a few short years, Publons membership has reached more than 80,000, comprising of researchers, editors, and publishers, and by December 2016, that number rose to a solid…

Nearly six months have passed since you submitted your manuscript for peer review. When it finally returns back to you, the editor informs you that the peer reviewers found your…

Peer review is one of the core activities upon which scholarly communication relies. However, the peer review process is typically closed and, as such; peer reviewers rarely…

The cancer journal, Tumor Biology, has uncovered 107 papers that had undergone a fake peer review process and retracted all of them. This retraction is the largest yet by a single…

Across many scientific disciplines, the voluntary peer review system is strained, if not under outright siege1,2. This trend is of great concern because peer review is an essential…

The peer review process is a crucial part of scholarly communication, but without good referees, the system would not work. However, researchers barely get credit for this…

During the second Peer Review Week in 2016, there were extensve discussions on how the institution of peer review is far from perfect. The problems with peer review in scientific…