Peer review

Springer Nature and Publons are partnering to improve the peer review process and to enable peer reviewers to receive recognition for their contribution

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