Rewarding Peer Review
Tools
- Publons This link opens in a new windowPublons helps you get the recognition you deserve for keeping watch over science and research. Easily import, verify, and store a record of every peer review you perform and every manuscript you handle as an editor, for any journal in the world, in full compliance with all editorial policies. Clarivate Analytics is an independent company and Publons operates independently from publishers.
- ReviewerCreditsExternal and independent peer-review of scientific articles is crucial to ensure the scientific validity of papers. Two friends, MDs, professors and researchers created Reviewercredits.com. They personally realized something needed to be done to facilitate the review process. Reviewercredits is completely free and completely independent from publishers. Reviewers from all fields are welcome to join the platform! Spin off company of the University of Milan-Bicocca.
Training for Reviewers
- ACS Reviewer LabACS Reviewer Lab is a free, 4-hour online course developed to educate researchers on the principles of quality peer-review. The course features interactive modules covering the basics of peer review and ethics, as well as real-life guidance on how to write a first-rate review. We welcome your feedback on all aspects of the course as it continues to evolve.
- Web of Science AcademyWeb of Science Academy is a practical peer review training course for early career researchers developed together with expert academics and editors to teach you the core competencies and skills needed of a peer reviewer.
- How to Review ArticlesResource from Sage Publishing on how to review articles
Hot Topics
- Bitcoin for the Biological LiteratureFebruary 04 2019. By Douglas Heaven. Scientific publishing is increasingly adopting the technology underlying cryptocurrencies for reasons including monetary reward for peer review.
- Scientists Aim To Pull Peer Review Out of The 17th CenturyFebruary 24 2018. By Richard Harris.
- The Problem(s) With Credit for Peer ReviewJune 17 2015. By David Crotty, The Scholarly Kitchen blog.
- Portable Peer Review RIPSeptember 25 2017. By Phil Davis, The Scholarly Kitchen blog.