Benefits for Peer Reviewers

Join Reviewer Credits and you’ll be among tens of thousands of researchers worldwide receiving:

  • Best-fit peer review invitations
  • Recognition for your academic profile
  • Rewards for your peer review efforts

Reviewer Credits lets you receive monetary rewards or tangible credits redeemable for author publishing services.

Get recognized and rewarded for your reviews

Peer review has a tradition being voluntary. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get credit.

  • Get recognized for your peer review work internationally across the academic world
  • Use our multilevel cross-publisher peer review metrics and reward system
  • Register your article, monograph, or conference paper reviews automatically
  • Receive monetary rewards or credit points for your efforts

Read more about our reward system

Receive best-fit peer review invitations

As part of our directory of reviewers, journals can easily find you, rather than having to dig through databases.

  • Customize your peer review preferences to receive best-fit peer review requests from the leading journals
  • Peer review boosts your academic and professional career growth and makes you more visible to prestigious journals, publishers, and conferences.

Learn more about getting recognized

Trusted and acknowledged certification

You’ll be certified for your activity. You can add that proof to your public academic profiles. Get credit from/via:

  • Reviewed and published works
  • Our Reviewer Contribution Index, journal rankings, article citations, scientific impact, and more

Use our ORCID integration to register your peer reviews from the last 20 years.

Find out more about certification

Build your expert reputation and network

Reviewer Credits makes you visible and accessible to thousands of high-ranked journals via your one profile.

Promote this profile across the Reviewer Credits network and the global community of recognized peer reviewers.

Build your peer review and research skills with our unique Peer Reviewer Power-Up Course. It equips you to perform peer review that makes a difference. Go beyond just critique and learn how to communicate in actionable ways that lead to better publications. Reviewer Credits will match you with suitable journals so you can start peer reviewing immediately.

Register and sync your profile and merits with your ORCiD account and integrate completed peer reviews automatically from Editorial Manager, OJS, and Crossref platforms.