When Adam Day built a method to compare the language in peer-review reports across scientific journals, he expected to find ...

Reviewer 1: "This manuscript is a timely and important contribution to the field, with clear methodology and compelling results. I recommend publication with only minor revisions." Reviewer 2: "This ...

Peer review, in its modern form, began to spread in the 18 th and 19 th centuries, becoming standard in the 20 th century.

A new expert-informed guide to writing effective peer review responses has just been published in Conservation Physiology, ...

F or more than two decades, I have participated in peer review as an author, reviewer, editor, and tenure-letter writer. I believe in it — not just as a bureaucratic obligation but as a collective ...

Some scholarly publishers are embracing artificial intelligence tools to help improve the quality and pace of peer-reviewed research in an effort to alleviate the longstanding peer review crisis ...

More than half of peer reviewers for four top medical journals received payments from drug and medical device manufacturers, totaling $1.06 billion, from 2020 to 2022, according to an analysis of the ...

I didn’t want to do it, but the abstract caught my eye: a paper on Malka Older’s 2016 novel, Infomocracy. Older’s book is a post-cyberpunk techno-thriller, set in a global democracy where ...