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.
Single-Blind and Double-Blind Peer Review: Effects on National Representation
Meghana Kalavar 1 , Arjun Watane 1 , David Wu 2 , Jayanth Sridhar 1 , Prithvi Mruthyunjaya 3 , Ravi Parikh 4 5 1 Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States. 2 Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins...
Exceptional Times Require Exceptional Measures: The Effect of COVID-19 on Cross-Publisher Collaboration
Flaminio SquazzoniBEHAVE Lab, Department of Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Milan, Italy Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early months of the last year, journals have been flooded by an unusually high number of submissions, while expecting a...
Interactive Platform for Peer Review: A Proposal to Improve the Current Peer Review System
Sameh Hany Emile 1 1 General Surgery Department, Mansoura University Hospitals, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt. World J Clin Cases. 2021 Feb 26;9(6):1247-1250 Peer review is the cornerstone in scientific publication. Although peer review has paramount...
Re-Evaluation of Solutions to the Problem of Unprofessionalism in Peer Review
Travis G Gerwing1, Alyssa M Allen Gerwing2 , Chi-Yeung Choi3 , Stephanie Avery-Gomm4 , Jeff C Clements5 , Joshua A Rash6 1 Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. . 2 Sidney Museum and Archives, Sidney, British Columbia,...
Publish or Perish: Five Steps to Navigating a Less Painful Peer Review
Carol A Lange 1 Stephen R Hammes 2 1 Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA. 2 Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester School...
Webinar | Give Your Career a Boost with Peer Review: Case Studies & Personal Insights
Event info Type: Webinar When: February, 4th 2021 | 16.00-17.00 (CET) Pre-registration for this (free) webinar is necessary to guarantee participation, please CLICK HERE to register ReviewerCredits offers an exciting opportunity to participate in an insightful event...
Why Participate in Peer Review?
Patricia K Kerig 1 1 Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. PMID: 33442940 The scholarly publishing enterprise is currently undergoing a "crisis," likely exacerbated by the global pandemic, in which peer reviewers are...