Peer Review Week 2017: Transparency in Review, and other innovations

Each week our dedicated in-house editorial staff spend thousands of hours co-ordinating the process of peer review, to ensure and improve the quality of the scientific literature we publish and in doing so, advance discovery. We support our Editors in Chief, Editorial Board Members, Section Editors, peer reviewers and authors by providing guidance and systems to enable them to improve manuscripts. Furthermore, we’re trialing innovative new practices through small-scale pilots, while also exploring grander ideas such as the potential role of Artificial Intelligence. But as it’s so integral to what we do and the service we provide for our authors, it’s not something we shout about every week. Therefore, Peer Review Week 2017, an annual celebration of the essential role that peer review plays in maintaining scientific quality, provides the perfect opportunity for us to update the academic community on what we’re doing, and to celebrate the work of the peer reviewers who generously give their time to examine manuscripts, offering help and advice. Transparency in Review The theme of this years’ Peer Review Week is Transparency in Review.  BMC, part of Springer Nature, was one of the pioneers of open peer review and earlier this year, issued a report based on the discussions at the SpotOn conference in London that examined how peer review might be improved for future generations. The report is well worth reading – it offers key recommendations to the academic comm...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Open Access Publishing Uncategorized open peer review peer review week Source Type: blogs