What Does the Future Hold for Peer Review?
Peer review is a vital part of academic publishing of original research. The process of peer review seems simple. Invited experts evaluate your manuscript for its validity and…
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Should Journals Begin Rewarding Peer Reviewers?
Academic research goes through a number of stages before a successful publication. One critical stage in publishing that validates your research is the peer review process. During…
Can Academic Peer Review be Fixed?
Publishing research helps the public benefit from your academic research. Other scientists can learn from your paper. Some may use it as the basis for their experiments. The peer…
Is Open Peer Review Good Enough?
Peer review is an essential part of science publishing, and although it has been criticized many times, it remains the most accepted way to assess the quality of research papers.…
What Is Open Peer Review? A Definitive Study
Peer review is a way by which manuscripts can be assessed for their quality. Reviewers scrutinize the draft of a journal article, grant application, or other work and provide…
Will Crowd-based Peer Review Replace Traditional Peer Review?
In simple terms, if you want your research paper published in a reputable journal, it must be read and assessed by experts in the field through the peer review process before being…
Transparency in the Peer Review Process
Peer review is an integral part of the publication cycle. It involves an independent and unbiased assessment by reviewers of a manuscript on the grounds of originality,…
Peer Review: What Do Reviewers Look for in Your Manuscript?
Peer review is an important part of the publishing process. Reviewers look for accuracy, timeliness, and appropriateness of the manuscript that can greatly affect the chances of…
Counting Beyond 107: More Papers Retracted by Springer Due to Fake Peer Review
Scientists often work diligently to carefully collect and report data. Such process leads to advancements in every discipline. In particular, new biomedical manuscripts are subject…
The Author’s Perspective on Peer Review: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The peer review process is vital for the production of scientific knowledge. But this cornerstone of science may be crumbling, increasingly weakened by a confluence of factors.…
Intelligent Crowd Peer Review Successfully Tested
Synlett, an international chemistry journal published by Thieme, has successfully tried a new form of peer review aimed to make manuscript assessment faster and fairer. The…
Newly Launched Publons Academy Offers Peer Review Training
In just a few short years, Publons membership has reached more than 80,000, comprising of researchers, editors, and publishers, and by December 2016, that number rose to a solid…