The gold standard of safe-guarding the quality of published science is peer review.
However, this long-standing system has not evolved in today's digital world, where there has …

Abstract Background and Objectives Reviewer refusal is a phenomenon associated with
different causes, including reviewer fatigue, lack of time, dissatisfaction with the editorial …

Managing the peer-review process is getting more difficult as years pass; it has also been
significantly negatively affected by the pandemic (Flaherty 2022). Even before the pandemic …

This article examines the evolution of peer review and the modern editorial processes of
scholarly journals by analyzing a novel data set derived from the Royal Society's archives …

We conducted a literature review of best practice in peer review. Following this research, we
identified five principles for better peer review: Content Integrity, Content Ethics, Fairness …

This Element describes for the first time the database of peer review reports at PLOS ONE,
the largest scientific journal in the world, to which the authors had unique access …

Academic papers are essential for researchers to communicate their work to their peers and
industry experts. Quality research is published in prestigious scientific journals, and is …

Reviewers with a present bias focus on the here and now, placing more importance on
immediate rewards than on future intentions and benefits. In this paper, we are going to …

In the slim body of literature on the paradoxes of volunteer management, this study explores
how transcendental rewards generate a paradox in faith-based organizations (FBOs) …

Purpose The purpose of this viewpoint is to spotlight the role of reviewers within the
collaborative triad of academic publishing. It argues that the significance of reviewers is …