Transparency in the Peer Review Process
Peer review is an integral part of the publication cycle. It involves an independent and unbiased assessment by reviewers of a manuscript on the grounds of originality,…
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Peer Review: What Do Reviewers Look for in Your Manuscript?
Peer review is an important part of the publishing process. Reviewers look for accuracy, timeliness, and appropriateness of the manuscript that can greatly affect the chances of…
Counting Beyond 107: More Papers Retracted by Springer Due to Fake Peer Review
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…
The Author’s Perspective on Peer Review: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The peer review process is vital for the production of scientific knowledge. But this cornerstone of science may be crumbling, increasingly weakened by a confluence of factors.…
Intelligent Crowd Peer Review Successfully Tested
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…
Newly Launched Publons Academy Offers Peer Review Training
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…
Back to the Future: Peer Review in 2030
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 Week 2017: Transparency in Review
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…
Fake Peer Review Leads to Massive Retractions
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…
Insights into Peer Reviewing and Its Challenges: An Interview With Dr. Jonas Ranstam
In the last decade, ensuring appropriate assessment of valid data has become increasingly important for journals. Many journal editors lack appropriate statistical knowledge,…
Peer Review Recognition: A Resume Booster?
Academic peer reviewers, also known as referees, are responsible for evaluating the work of researchers with a similar expertise as themselves. The peer review process serves as a…
Is Portable Peer Review Beneficial for Academic Publishing?
Portable peer review is a model in which the peer review process is conducted without the involvement of the journals, detaching the referee reports from publication in a…