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 ...

If the editor decides to send the manuscript to peer reviewers, they will contact researchers with relevant expertise. Reviewer selection is critical to the review process, and we work hard 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 ...

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 ...

For this assignment, you will read and mark two of your peers’ drafts and write a letter to each peer identifying areas for revision with suggestions for revision. For two of your peers’ essay drafts, ...

For health and social-care research sponsored by UoB, the Research Governance Team are required, as Sponsor, to ensure that appropriate peer review has been conducted. For most funded research, this ...

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, ...

In short, it is informed critique of instruction to foster professional improvement. Peer review of teaching (also known as colleague evaluations or use of expert educators) is the process of ...

Our Peer Review Committee scientists embrace the central ACS tenet that peer review not only helps us fund the most impactful cancer research, but also serves to make the applicants better scientists.

At NIH, we are working to optimize our resources to support the best science. By centralizing the peer review process, we ...