Articles
Peer Review Week 2020
Is the need for speed and urgency being balanced by the need for quality in peer review during COVID-19? This article briefly explores this question.
- Mriganka Awati
- September 21, 2020
As the world comes together for Peer Review Week, we look at the benefits and challenges of preprints, and whether its growing popularity is eroding trust in peer review…
- Audrey Fernz
- September 23, 2020
The long-drawn peer review process can be frustrating for not just for researchers, but also for the journal editor. How can you, the author, help accelerate the…
- Audrey Fernz
- September 23, 2020
The truth is that love it or hate it, peer reviews play an integral part of the scholarly publishing process and research authors must learn to live with it. But in the…
- Elizabeth George
- September 17, 2020
While the significance of peer review itself cannot be contested, the fact remains that there are critical challenges around peer review. These challenges could hamper…
- Dr. Zahra Al Timimi
- September 25, 2020
I must admit that as a young academic, receiving a decision from a journal stirs up some strong emotions. With trembling hands I read the editor’s decision: Major…
- Juuso Nieminen
- September 25, 2020
Peer Review Week 2020 is coming up - and we would like you to join us in all the great discussions around peer review!
- Irfan Syed
- September 1, 2020
As we talk about trust in peer review, the theme of Peer Review Week 2020, we asked top-journal peer reviewers to share their views on this integral process. Read on to…
- Elizabeth George
- September 22, 2020
At first, it seems AI and peer review have nothing in common. Peer reviewers are human, and no machine has (yet) come up with the ability to read a paper and decide if…
- Michael Upshall
- September 18, 2020
As we discuss trust in this year’s Peer Review Week, our expert Christopher Leonard explains how AI is being used to aid human decision making, and how this, in turn,…
- Dr. Christopher Leonard
- September 23, 2020