Publons and ScholarOne have entered a partnership with IOP Publishing to introduce the industry’s first cross-publisher, scalable transparent peer review workflows
Lou Peck discovers that a challenging issue is also increasingly complex – but there is also plenty to be celebrated
Chris Graf asks: what happens to research quality when we change the peer review and the research publishing model?
Springer Nature and Publons are partnering to improve the peer review process and to enable peer reviewers to receive recognition for their contribution
BioMed Central has created a new service, In Review.
Publons, a Clarivate Analytics company, has announced the winners of the Publons Peer Review Awards, highlighting global researchers for both the quality and quantity of their peer reviews
IOP Publishing has expanded its double-blind peer review programme, following a successful pilot on two of its journals
Nature Research has launched a free peer review training course, delivered by its journal editors
The London University research and teaching institution Birkbeck is set to investigate the workings of the academic peer review process
In order to effect real, industry-wide improvements to the peer review process, publishers, researchers, funders and institutions need to be willing to experiment with different models, encourage more diversity in the reviewer pool, utilise artificial intelligence and support training and mentoring for peer reviewers
The pandemic has pushed the use of technology to the fore and it is likely to remain there, writes Tim Gillett
Lou Peck and Phil Hurst
Lou Peck and Phil Hurst cast an eye over proceedings during Peer Review Week
Academic publishers are railing against inaccurate stories and asking the scientific community to do more, writes Matt McKay
We've recently seen some positive and impactful changes to the way in which the OA landscape can work, writes Steven Inchcoombe
Rebecca Pool asks: has Covid-19 pushed the move towards open data to the point of no return?
