'Distributed peer review' helps take the burden off peer reviewers reviewing applications for allocating telescope time slots by putting the onus on applican...

Manuscripts authored by women and men are treated similarly during peer review, finds a new study of more than 760,000 reviews of nearly 350,000 papers from ...

The International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC) has distanced itself from a recent study published by its own journal, which suggested that an...

A new database aiming to clarify how peer review is conducted at different scholarly journals launched in March. The full article was published at Nature Ind...

A few years ago, Anna Ponnampalam did something out-of-the-box. She entered a lottery. But she wasn’t buying scratch-off tickets promising cash for life. She...

Publons, a website that allows peer reviewers to claim credit for refereeing manuscripts, is expanding its remit to grant peer review. Last month, the London...

An analysis of submissions of manuscripts and peer review reports at two journals suggests that a significant number of researchers around the world continue...

Why do some other funders and scholarly publishers still allow researchers to suggest reviewers to evaluate their work? Some funders and publishers call the ...

Researchers spend around ten days every year reviewing other academics’ funding proposals, according to the largest ever survey of grant peer review. While n...

The language found in research papers isn’t more carefully crafted language after peer review but it does include more on the potential limitations of the wo...

An online poll answered by more than 4,300 Nature readers suggests that most researchers have felt pressured by peer reviewers to cite studies in their paper...

The use of scientific methodology to study science itself is called metascience. The discipline, which has become mainstream in recent years, got a new boost...

Three in four researchers are satisfied with science’s quality control system, according to a new survey of more than 3,000 academics by the advocacy group S...

The Dutch publisher Elsevier is investigating hundreds of researchers whom it suspects of deliberately manipulating the peer-review process to boost their ow...

The job of a peer reviewer is thankless. Collectively, academics spend around 70 million hours every year evaluating each other’s manuscripts on the behalf o...

Trawling through the websites of academic journals to decipher their publication policies can be a laborious task. A new database aims to simplify the proces...

Around half of the researchers participating in a new survey have admitted ghostwriting referee reports on behalf of senior faculty. The high proportion of p...

Peer reviewers are four times more likely to give a grant application an "excellent" or "outstanding" score rather than a "poor" or "good" one when they are ...

A rare analysis of open peer review — in which reviews are posted alongside published papers — has overturned some common conceptions about the practice: not...

Globally, more than two-thirds of researchers find it difficult to prepare manuscripts and to respond to peer-review comments, finds a survey of nearly 7,000...