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 second annual Peer Review Week will run from September 19- 25, 2016.
This year's theme is Recognition for Review, exploring all aspects of how those participating in review activity – in publishing, grant review, conference submissions, promotion and tenure, and more – should be recognized for their contribution.
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 is available https://peerreviewweek.wordpress.com/. 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 our 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, PRE (Peer Review Evaluation), Sense About Science, and Wiley, the organisations that planned and launched the initiative in 2015.
In 2016, over 20 organisations are signed on to the Peer Review Week organising committee.
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