News and events
This section contains a selection of the main news and events that interest the world of peer review. To stay informed about updates coming from the management of publications, find the reporting of important events, courses or conferences, scheduled around the world; know activities and initiatives related to the peer review coming from involved associations and publishers.
Reviewer Credits and Prophy.Science Join Forces
Prophy.Science (Copenhagen) and ReviewerCredits (Berlin) have announced that they are entering into a partnership that will alleviate the problem of finding peer reviewers. The two will enable a new solution based on AI-powered optimization from a pool of vetted and verified peer reviewers. This new partnership will solve the ‘bounce back’ issue inherent to finding reviewers, increase scientific transparency, and reward those researchers who carry out this vital task.
Bentham Emphasizes Unique Strengths in Peer Review via New Relationship with Reviewer Credits
Bentham Science Publishers, the largest academic journal and eBook publisher from the Gulf Region, has always based its success on rigorous and highly effective double-blind peer review. All Bentham peer reviewers are selected from a database of more than 80,000 verified researchers who all have h-indices greater than 5. Editors at Bentham (as well as submitting authors) are never involved in peer reviewer selection.
One Year in Review(er Credits): Musings from Dr. Sven Fund
It's been one year since we restarted ReviewerCredits. I know: Time flies when you're having fun! Seriously though, now’s the time to look back over one year of the all new revamped, revitalized, and repositioned ReviewerCredits, take a quick look at what worked well,...
Crossref Peer Review Integration Available Now
Reviewer Credits is happy to announce that reviewers can now import peer reviews registered in Crossref database. Over 300 thousand peer review metadata records in Crossref are now available to import for the reviewers in Reviewer Credits. The registered reviewers can...
Editorial Manager Integration. Webinar with Patrick A. Wachholz
https://youtu.be/cgjCw7un0v0 Thursday 10 February 2022 - 2:00 PM GMT Guest Speaker: Dr. Patrick A. Wachholz, Executive Editor "Geriatrics, Gerontology, Aging" This webinar showed how Journals using Aries Editorial Manager can automate the transfer of peer...
A Billion-Dollar Donation: Estimating the Cost of Researchers’ Time Spent on Peer Review
Balazs Aczel [1], Barnabas Szaszi [1], Alex O. Holcombe [2] [1] Institute of Psychology, ELTE, Eotvos Lorand University, Izabella u. 46, Budapest, 1064, Hungary [2] School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Res Integr Peer Rev 6, 14 (2021)....
Reviewer Contribution Index (RCI): The Views of Our Ambassadors
Reviewer Contribution Index (RCI) is the metric based on the F3-index and developed by ReviewerCredits in collaboration with University of Valencia. It considers three objective parameters to measure the contribution of peer reviewers: Review report length, Review...