Clarivate Analytics expands Transparent Peer Review pilot with Wiley to include 10 new titles - January 24, 2019
Wiley has expanded its Transparent Peer Review project with the addition of ten further leading international journals. Clarivate companies - Publons, the world's largest peer review platform, and ScholarOne, the leading manuscript submission system - launched the scholarly industry's first scalable open… Read More
BMC launches formal portable peer review policy on BMC Biology - December 18, 2018
BMC, the first publisher to openly post named peer reviewer reports alongside articles, has announced the launch of a formal portable peer review policy on BMC Biology. The policy aims to speed up the peer review process and decrease waste in publishing. 'Portable peer review' is… Read More
Frontiers integrates AIRA into its digital peer-review platform - December 17, 2018
Open-access scholarly publisher Frontiers has announced the integration of Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant (AIRA) into its digital peer-review platform to enable better, more efficient quality control and manuscript handling. AIRA assists editors, reviewers and internal teams by analysing, interpreting and communicating the quality of submitted manuscripts… Read More
Springer Nature and Publons partner to bring greater efficiency and recognition to peer review - December 12, 2018
Research publisher Springer Nature and Publons, part of Clarivate Analytics, have announced a partnership to improve the peer review process and enable peer reviewers to receive recognition for their contribution. The burden on the peer review community is increasing as the volume… Read More
BMC, Research Square and Hypothesis collaborate to promote transparency, early sharing and enable community feedback during peer review - December 10, 2018
BMC, Research Square, and Hypothesis have announced a new collaboration designed to promote transparency, early sharing, and encourage community feedback through annotation during the peer review process. In keeping with its long history in experimentation around new types… Read More
ChemRxiv announces Direct Journal Transfer to streamline submission of research for journal peer review - December 3, 2018
ChemRxiv, a chemistry preprint server for the global chemistry community, has announced Direct Journal Transfer, a new feature that will help authors submit their posted preprints to established journals for editorial consideration and peer review. This feature, which is now available on the ChemRxiv website, currently… Read More
SAE International and Publons in deal to improve recognition of journal peer reviewers - November 9, 2018
SAE International has announced a partnership with Publons to help train and recognise reviewers of its journals. The initial agreement covers six SAE International journals. Through the process, reviewers can quickly and efficiently earn credit for being a verified reviewer. The process is conducted through… Read More
Royal Society and Publons collaborate on strategic solutions for peer review - October 10, 2018
The Royal Society has announced that it will become Development Partners with Publons, a peer review platform, a Clarivate Analytics company. This partnership will allow both companies to fully collaborate on the Royal Society's strategic requirements in… Read More
Hindawi launches new peer review platform built on open-source PubSweet framework - September 19, 2018
Hindawi Limited has announced the launch of a new peer review platform built using the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation's (Coko) open source PubSweet framework. This is the first complete open-source peer review system to come out of the Coko community, a group… Read More
Wiley and Clarivate Analytics partner to launch new open peer review workflow - September 14, 2018
John Wiley and Sons Inc., a global leader in education and scholarly research; Publons, a peer review platform; and ScholarOne, a manuscript submission system, have announced the launch of the scholarly industry's first scalable open peer review workflow. Academic journals have faced a number of practical… Read More