Pensoft partners with ReviewerCredit to certify and reward peer review - May 26, 2020
Following recent API integration with ReviewerCredits, scholarly publisher and technology provider Pensoft has launched a pilot phase with one of its peer-reviewed, open-access journal: Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ). Reviewers, who create an account on ReviewerCredits, will automatically record their peer review contributions, which will be certified… Read More
eLife launches Preprint Review service to peer review preprints on bioRxiv - May 14, 2020
eLife has announced the launch of Preprint Review, which brings high-quality peer review to the preprint server bioRxiv. Preprint Review offers authors who have embraced the speed and efficiency of sharing their research as preprints the opportunity to have eLife review their work directly on… Read More
Molecular Biology of the Cell is one of the first journals to join portable peer review platform - November 15, 2019
Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) is one of the first journals to participate in a new platform that enables journal-independent, 'portable' peer review. A research manuscript submitted to the platform, Review Commons, will be reviewed by experts for technical rigor and its contribution to the… Read More
Editage partners with ReviewerCredits to offer peer review training and author services - November 14, 2019
Editage, a science communications brand by Cactus Communications (CACTUS), has announced a partnership with ReviewerCredits, a spinoff company endorsed by the University of Milano-Bicocca. Through this collaboration, Editage and ReviewerCredits will launch a service platform that will cover key areas such as reviewer education, English editing,… Read More
Publons publishes the first large-scale survey on grant peer review - October 10, 2019
Publons, part of the Web of Science Group (a Clarivate Analytics company), has published the first large-scale survey on competitive research grant peer review, Grant Review in Focus. A grant is a financial award given by a… Read More
Quality and peer review survey results, created by Sense about Science and Elsevier, published at the start of international Peer Review Week - September 16, 2019
Ten years on from the influential peer review survey of 2009, new findings show researchers have confidence in peer review, but strains on the system – including the increasing volume of research outputs and platforms to access research - are causing them to worry about quality and reliability. The survey… Read More
Emerald Publishing partners with Web of Science Group to open up peer review - August 8, 2019
The Web of Science Group (a Clarivate Analytics company) has entered into a new partnership with Emerald Publishing, to pilot the industry’s first cross-publisher, scalable and transparent peer review workflow from Publons and ScholarOne across three of Emerald’s leading journals. Transparent… Read More
American Speech-Language-Hearing association adopts Editorial Manager for submission and peer review - July 24, 2019
Aries Systems Corporation has announced the adoption of its web-based manuscript tracking and peer review system, Editorial Manager®, by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). ASHA is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 204,000 members and affiliates, including… Read More
Web of Science Group and IOP Publishing partner to introduce industry’s first cross-publisher, scalable transparent peer review workflows - July 16, 2019
Publons and ScholarOne, both part of the Web of Science Group (a Clarivate Analytics company), have entered into a new partnership with IOP Publishing to introduce the industry’s first cross-publisher, scalable transparent peer review workflows across some of… Read More
PLOS announces published peer review option - May 23, 2019
PLOS has announced that all its journals will offer authors the option to publish their peer review history alongside their accepted manuscript. They are making major strides towards a more open publication process and this peer review option gives authors and reviewers more choices about how… Read More
