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.
May 15th 2021 – ReviewerCredits Fourth Anniversary
2021 is the fourth anniversary of Reviewercredits.com and we celebrate it by taking advantage of our journey so far, making a first “review” of what our goals have been, what we have achieved, and what our future goals are. All this by putting our users and our...
The pilot project “Agriculture”: towards a highly specialized database
ReviewerCredits keeps improving services offered to the scientific community providing a sturdy and transparent tool to certify, measure and reward the peer review activity, and facilitating the search for referees to entrust with the review process of the articles,...
Reimagining the peer-review system for translational health science journals
Elise M Smith Department of Preventive Medicine and Population Health, Institute for Translational Sciences, Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA Clin Transl Sci 2021 May 7. doi: 10.1111/cts.13050...
Is outsourcing Peer Review a killer idea for Journals?
Flaminio Squazzoni BEHAVE Lab, Department of Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Milan, Italy A recent report by Cathleen O’Grady for Science has announced a new frontier in the current experiments on Peer Review: a group of Journals,...
The importance of being a peer reviewer in 2021
Event info: Recording of free panel discussion When: April 17th | 15:00 – 16:00 CEST Speaker: Dr. Gareth Dyke - Host Prof. Giacomo Bellani - Expert reviewer Mrs. Lucia Steele - Publications manager Discover the importance of being a peer reviewer by watching this...
Free Panel Discussion | Why agree to be a peer reviewer in 2021? The importance of this process
Event info Type: Panel Discussion When: April, 17th 2021 | 3:00 pm CEST | 1.00 pm GMT | 9.00 pm UTC / GMT Offset +8:00 hours Pre-registration for this (free) panel is necessary to guarantee participation, please click on the button below to register: [button...
Comprehensive examination of the peer review process in academic medicine: Towards reaching unbiased decisions – Editorial
Dino Fanfan 1 , Mark McKenney 1 2 , Adel Elkbuli 1 1 Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA. 2 Department of Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA. Ann Med Surg (Lond)...