To honour and celebrate peer review, a group of organisations is working collaboratively to plan a week of activities and events. The group has announced that the third annual Peer Review Week will run from September 11- 17, 2017.
The theme of Peer Review Week 2017 is Transparency in Review, exploring what the concept means to various stakeholders participating in review activity - in publishing, grant review, conference submissions, promotion and tenure, and more.
Planned activities include virtual and in-person events including webinars, videos, interviews and social media activities designed to improve understanding of the principle of peer review and how it is practiced within the scholarly community. A list of events, including Under the Microscope: Transparency in Review, a panel discussion taking place following the Peer Review Congress on September 12, is available at https://peerreviewweek.wordpress.com/activities/. Throughout the week many organisations will join in with additional activities.
The Peer Review Week website also features a list of online resources to advance the understanding of peer review and its role in 21st century scholarship.
The idea for the first Peer Review Week, held in 2015, grew out of informal conversations between ORCID, ScienceOpen, Sense about Science, and Wiley, the organisations that planned and launched the initiative in 2015.
In 2017, over 20 organisations are signed on to the Peer Review Week organising committee. Coordinating efforts enables to share widely and powerfully the message that good peer review, whatever shape or form it might take, is critical to scholarly communications.
Organising Committee includes members of the following organisations: AAAS, AAUP, ACS Publications, AMRC, Aries Systems, Editage, Editorial Office Ltd, eLife, Elsevier, Emerald Publishing, F1000, Federation of European Microbiological Societies, INASP, Informa, ISMTE, JAMA Peer Review Congress, OHRI, ORCID, OSA, PEERE, Publons, SAGE Publishing, Science Open, Sense about Science, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, The Royal Society, UGR, Wiley.
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