Peer review practices vary widely. Consequently readers and research funders lack a convenient and standardised way to assess the quality of peer review undertaken by scholarly journals. In response to this need, STRIATUS/JBJS, publisher of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery and its family of journals and educational offerings, is developing a transparent metric that will help readers identify journals that conduct ethical and rigorous peer review, called PRE-score.
The PRE-score algorithm uses a variety of inputs such as the number of review cycles to determine the PRE-score for a manuscript. These data inputs are stored in the journal's peer review system such as Aries Systems' Editorial Manager® currently used by more than 5,500 scholarly journals.
Aries Systems and STRIATUS/JBJS, Inc. have announced a development partnership that will allow relevant workflow data to be automatically transferred from Editorial Manager to PRE-score so that the PRE-score can be calculated and published with the manuscript. Aries anticipates that the new functionality will be available to Editorial Manager customers in late 2014.
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