Resources for Peer Reviewers
What is Peer Review? A Brief but Spectacular Guide
Peer review is the process by which experts in a specific academic/scientific field assess and critique the quality, validity, and relevance of scholarly authors’ research and academic publications, such as manuscripts and books. Through this process, peer reviewers help academic publishers decide if the work is suitable for publication, needs revision, or is unfit for publication. Other researchers trust published peer-reviewed research as material they can cite and apply in their own work. This post gives the definition, history, and process of peer review, with a chance for reviewers to get involved and journal editors to access ready-to-go reviewers. READ MORE >>
Every Type of Peer Review (in 1 article!)
Explore every major, minor, and experimental type of peer review that shapes the integrity and quality of academic publishing. From the widely used single- and double-blind reviews to emerging models like AI-assisted and crowdsourced peer review, this guide offers a comprehensive overview. Read more >>
Portable Peer Review: The Pros and Cons
Portable peer review streamlines academic publishing by transferring peer review feedback between journals, saving time and reducing redundancy. While it promises efficiency and transparency, challenges like bias transfer and varying journal standards remain. Explore the benefits, drawbacks, and impact of this transformative model. Read more >>
Peer Review and Publishing Integrity: Essential Partners
As research output surges, the importance of publication integrity intensifies. Explore how rigorous peer review upholds ethical standards, ensures accurate data, and fosters trust within the academic community. Learn about common issues, tools for detection, and innovative future models that empower both reviewers and editors to safeguard scholarly credibility… Read more >>
5 Tips for PhD Students to Be Effective Peer Reviewers
Getting involved in peer review as a PhD student helps improve research quality and boosts your own skills as an emerging scientist. It gets your name out there in the field and is an impressive addition to your CV. Read more >>
Being a Great Peer Reviewer
Peer review is at the heart of high-quality publishing. Consider being a reviewer a way to help advance your field of interest and provide constructive feedback to your fellow authors. Due to the huge increase in manuscripts submitted for publication, reviewers are quickly becoming valuable professional figures. Read more >>
Whether to Choose Double-blind Peer Review
In the dynamic world of academic publishing, the process of peer review stands as a cornerstone for maintaining the integrity and quality of scholarly work. Among the various models, double-blind peer review Read more >>
Preprints and Open Peer Review
At this year’s OASPA conference, the panel on preprints included a report by Jessica Polka (ASAPbio), who provided an overview of the preprint peer review process as it is currently conducted: Read more >>
How Much Do Peer Reviewers Get Paid?
Peer review involves experts in a particular field evaluating and critiquing research papers before they are published in journals or presented at conferences. Yet, despite its importance, many peer reviewers do not receive any monetary compensation for their time and expertise… Read more >>
Reviewer-proofing Your Next Article
Ebook: The Ultimate Guide to Flawlessly Preparing Your Article to Survive Peer Review Read more >>
Is Open Peer Review Really Open?
As we all know, peer review is a fundamental component of the scientific publishing process. This process serves as a quality control mechanism, ensuring that research articles meet certain standards of rigor and validity before…
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Will My Research Grant Be Peer Reviewed? Understanding the Evaluation Process
Securing a research grant is a crucial step for scholars and scientists aiming to explore new frontiers in their fields. However, the process of obtaining a research grant can be daunting, raising questions about the evaluation methods used by funding agencies…Read more >>
How to Become a Peer Reviewer
To become a peer reviewer, a journal editor must invite you to review a manuscript being considered for publication. So then, how can you make that happen? Read more >>
Responding to Negative Peer Review Comments (Win-Win Approach)
From a researcher’s perspective, negative comments can be heartbreaking. No one likes to hear that the project they’ve been working on for months… Read more >>
Peer Review and the Publishing Cycle
How submissions are handled varies greatly on the size of the journal and its publisher. Larger journals usually have the support of sophisticated… Read more >>
Why You Should Do Peer Review
Being asked to do peer review is both a privilege and a duty. You might see it as a burden, but this post will tell you why it’s a chance to advance yourself and the science you’re reviewing…
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Mastering Journal Peer Review: An Easy-to-Follow Guide for Effective Manuscript Evaluation
Reviewer Credits proudly presents an essential resource for the scholarly community. This e-book, available only to registered users, is an invaluable tool for anyone involved in the peer review process. Read more >>
The Art of Peer Reviewer Selection
Know how journal editors select peer reviewers for submitted articles. By following the steps outlined in this guide, you can effectively… Read more >>
Peer Review Polices Publications: How the Process Can Work
Did you submit an article to a journal but it was rejected because it was ‘out of scope’? Dodgy things authors do that it’s important to be aware of as a peer reviewer… Read more >>
Journal Selection: One Researcher’s “Path to Publication”
Long before peer review, before writing your article, selecting a suitable journal with reach, readership, and reputation is key … Read more >>
Peer Review as a Transferable Skill
Peer review is a valuable skill and an essential component of academic writing and research. What many researchers, especially young researchers… Read more >>
Mastering the Art and Science of Peer Review
Mastering the art of peer review is a valuable skill that contributes to the advancement of academic research and scholarly discourse… Read more >>
Should You Accept a Peer Review Invitation?
How does the editor’s request to undertake peer review make you feel? Honored? Scared? Intimidated? Out of your depth? Don’t worry: All of these feelings… Read more >>
Tips in Peer Review: Communication with Journal Editors
Most researchers tend to think that communication with journal editors is a formal process, controlled and restricted by manuscript online submission systems… Read more >>
Best Platforms for Peer Review Recognition
In recent years, the landscape of academic publishing has experienced a transformative shift, placing a heightened emphasis on acknowledging the indispensable contributions of peer reviewers. A slew of innovative… Read more >>
Calling all Peer Reviewers! Now’s the time to sign up for an ORCID iD
Did you know that ReviewerCredits has a simple integration which means you can sign up on our site in one click using your ORCID iD?… Read more >>
Tips and Tricks for Navigating the Manuscript Submission Process
I just finished submitting my latest paper to a well-known Open Access journal. This time it took ages and ages; although most journal online systems for submissions are similar… Read more >>
Peer Review and You: Managing the Process
How to select reviewers for your research papers: Ensure that your articles have the best chance of acceptance. Anyone submitting a research article… Read more >>
Peer Review Blind Dating: Is this System Fairer for Authors?
Although many academic authors do prefer double-blind peer review as they feel it largely removes all bias, more still select single-blind when given the choice… Read more >>
#LoveData24: Visual communication
Whether talking to experts or to the general public, having access to proprietary tools or only what is available for free, the first thing to know when planning a presentation is to understand your audience. Do you have a call to action? How will you measure success? Read more >>
#LoveMethods24: The peer review conundrum
I peer review a lot, mostly papers that follow an IMRaD format. By far, the section where I have the most comments and observations, the one that annoys me the most, is the… Read more >>
About F3-index and RCI
F3-index is the result of comparing the performance of peer reviewers assigned to the same manuscript, given that any submission is different from another in… Read more >>
#LoveData24: Data availability, replication, and peer review
Explore the core of research integrity with a focus on data availability, replication, and peer review. Unpack the challenges of data preservation, the significance of peer review in resource allocation, and the impact of ethical data sharing. Learn about the power of data repositories and the importance of best practices in data management for scientific advancement… Read more >>
#LoveMethods24: Is the reproducibility crisis over?
Earlier this year, I did a lot of research on methods. I was tasked with preparing the “methods” class from a workshop on writing research papers in the life sciences. I summarized the bare bones of it… Read more >>