Recent years have seen significant challenges for the world of peer review, with increasing pressures on editors tasked with finding trusted and reliable reviewers - and growing concerns about the incidence of peer review fraud and retractions resulting from this. Here, five companies developing editorial and peer review systems tell us how they are facing the future
Automating allocation of reviewers can speed up the review process - but the information about the reviewers' interests need to be good. Sian Harris speaks to the co-founder and CEO of open-access publisher Frontiers
Janne-Tuomas Seppanen describes a new journal that he hopes will provide recognition for good peer reviews
Jackie Jones discusses why Wiley is piloting a new system to help transfer peer review between journals
Childhood friends formed New Zealand-based Publons to help academics build a reputation for their reviews, writes Sian Harris
Janne-Tuomas Seppanen describes a new journal that he hopes will provide recognition for good peer reviews
Peerage of Science has won this year's Communications Professionals of Finnish Universities annual recognition award
Richard Padley argues the case for scrutinising software submitted with scholarly articles within the peer-review process
JISC's executive secretary, Malcolm Read, comments on the recent UK report into peer review and the role of data in evaluating research quality
The Japan Science and Technology Agency has selected ScholarOne Manuscripts as a peer-review workflow management system for its 64 journals
