The peer review process is central to science – but it can be easily manipulated. Improving it is vital to uphold research ...

About 800,000 registered users receive e-mailed tables of contents ... so many submissions have to be declined without peer-review. The Nature journals differ from most other journals in that ...

Display items – up to 6 figures and/or tables. Article should be divided ... Stage 1 manuscripts passing this initial stage of peer review are provisionally accepted in principle before data ...

Despite its importance as the ultimate gatekeeper of scientific publication and funding, peer review is known to engender bias, incompetence, excessive expense, ineffectiveness, and corruption. A ...

It is expected that in 2025, approximately three million articles will be indexed in Scopus and the Web of Science. If each ...

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, ...

RSC Chemical Biology has become the first Royal Society of Chemistry journal to adopt transparent peer review – meaning that reviewers’ comments can be read publically. The move is part of our ...

the SME will evaluate the revised manuscript and either request further peer reviews (repeating steps 4–8 above) or make a decision (steps 7 and 8 above). Manuscripts that have received a decision of ...