eLife supports PREreview’s peer-review mentoring program - December 17, 2020
eLife has announced that it is supporting PREreview to pilot an interactive peer-review mentoring program that empowers early-career researchers to contribute to scholarly review. PREreview Open Reviewers is designed by the team behind PREreview.org, a platform for the crowdsourcing of preprint reviews, to support early-career researchers to… Read More
Aries Systems and ReviewerCredits partner to connect peer review recognition solution with Editorial Manager® - November 13, 2020
Aries Systems Corporation, a leading technology workflow solutions provider for the scholarly publishing community, has partnered with ReviewerCredits, a peer-review accolade service, to facilitate an automatic and more efficient means of acknowledging Reviewers for their work. Millions of hours are volunteered by researchers each year… Read More
EDP Sciences celebrates ‘trust in peer review’ in support of Peer Review Week 2020 - September 25, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect a large proportion of the globe, it is more important than ever for the public, policymakers, and researchers to be able to trust in scientific output. Peer Review Week 2020 is celebrating its sixth year with a focus on ‘Trust in Peer Review’.… Read More
IOP Publishing launches first-of-its-kind peer review certification programme - September 21, 2020
IOP Publishing (IOPP) is revolutionising peer review learning with the launch of the world’s first peer review certification programme dedicated to the physical sciences. ‘Peer review excellence: IOP training and certification’ will give early career researchers the ability to review with confidence, increasing trust and standardising… Read More
IOP Publishing to adopt double-blind peer review for all journals - September 8, 2020
IOP Publishing (IOPP) is proposing to move all its owned journals to double-blind peer review, making it the first physics publisher to adopt the approach portfolio-wide. The move is part of IOPP’s dedication to tackle the significant gender, racial and geographical under-representation in the scholarly… Read More
Global imbalance in distribution of peer review continues, reveals IOP Publishing report - August 27, 2020
A new global peer review study from IOP Publishing has found that the imbalance in the distribution of peer review continues to be felt by Western and more experienced reviewers. German, US and UK reviewers are more likely to feel overloaded by review requests, with… Read More
Quantitative Science Studies journal to participate in transparent peer review - August 10, 2020
The MIT Press has announced that Quantitative Science Studies (QSS), the official open access journal of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, has started a pilot program with Clarivate to utilise the Publons transparent peer review and reviewer recognition services on… Read More
EMS Press adopts MSP’s EditFlow to manage submissions and peer review of journals - August 5, 2020
EMS Press, the publishing house of the not-for-profit European Mathematical Society, has chosen EditFlow from Mathematical Sciences Publishers (MSP) to manage submissions and peer review across 16 of its journals. A wider roll-out is expected to be completed by the end of… Read More
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
