All Nature Portfolio journals, including Communications Biology, offer a double anonymized peer review option. Authors may choose this option at submission to remain anonymous to referees prior to ...

The following outline can be used to track the status of your manuscript. If you currently have a manuscript in peer review, you will see a status message on your Author Dashboard in ScholarOne under ...

Faith in institutions defined by their commitment to empiricism is waning, and I can understand the desire to look to peer ...

There are several things we do to prioritise fairness during the publishing process. This starts with making sure our editors and peer reviewers are well-trained and supported so they can provide the ...

Why does inclusion and diversity in peer review matter? A peer review process that is inclusive can promote quality and fairness. If we encourage debate and discussion from a diverse range of voices, ...

The author-editor relationship should be a dance, not a duel. An author is not at the mercy of the process; you are a partner ...

To some, this may appear to be a reason for concern with how scholarly research is being conducted, the legitimacy of the peer-review process and how research is being used to influence policy ...

The traditional gatekeepers of academic publishing—prestigious journals and their editors—no longer hold all the cards.

In October, I wrote “In Defense of Reader 2,” about the peer-review process and the notorious hypercritical reviewer known as “Reader 2” (in sending you peer reviews of your work ...

Most of the top 100 medical journals provide guidance on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) during the peer review process, with many explicitly prohibiting its use, a study showed.

Clarity is scarce right now, but stable funding is vital to sustaining important research in America, writes .