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.
Rewards Reviewers Truly Want
ReviewerCredits has always been in the lookout for benefits to compensate the difficult work of peer reviewers. Not only it offers certificates to prove peer review activities and conference talks, but it also assigns credits that can be exchanged for real rewards....
Building Up Trust May Be a Real Challenge, Yet Reviewer Credits Earns It with the Right Spirit
ReviewerCredits understands the difficulty of having a trustworthy environment in the peer review process due to the lack of established standards. This is why since the origin, ReviewerCredits aims to create a comprehensive platform to certify, measure and reward the...
Peer Reviewers Face Constant Challenges: The Solutions Proposed by Reviewer Credits
One of the greatest challenges of the peer review process is the limited availability of reviewers. The scientists that reviews most of the work that gets published often has to face additional issues such as the unfair and inefficient peer review process....
What Kind of Support Do Reviewers Need and Where Could They Find It?
ReviewerCredits has recently interviewed 300 reviewers from more than 23 countries to measure their feelings towards peer review recognition and rewarding. There are still some industry-wide gaps existing and ReviewerCredits intends to fill them. By examining the...
Reviewer Credits’ CEO Valeria Mazzon Welcomes All the National Ambassadors
In this brief video, ReviewerCredits CEO, Valeria Mazzon, welcomes all the Ambassadors showing our appreciation for this lively group of peers. "We are always grateful for our National Ambassadors that support ReviewerCredits’ activities in their own country and...
It Takes Two to Tango: What Linguistic Studies of Reports Can Teach Us About Peer Review
Flaminio Squazzoni [email protected] ReviewerCredits Scientific Advisor BEHAVE Lab, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy On 24 July 2020, “Peer Review and Research Integrity” has published an interesting...
Reviewer Credits in the Days of COVID-19: Interview with Giacomo Bellani, Company Founder and Intensive Medical Doctor
Giacomo Bellani is Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine of the University of Milan-Bicocca, in Monza, Italy, staff physician in the general Intensive Care Unit of San Gerardo Hospital and Founder of the startup ReviewerCredits. First of all,...