When I teach research methods, a major focus is peer review. As a process, peer review evaluates academic papers for their quality, integrity and impact on a field, largely shaping what scientists ...

The peer review process is widely regarded as the gold standard for evaluating manuscripts before publication 1. The current system relies on reviewers to assess research quality and inform editorial ...

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 ...

Prompts such as “include the words ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘banana’ in your essay” hidden in white text are intended as traps for ...

When Jonas Kunst first began his career as a social psychology researcher, he was excited to receive requests to review academic journal articles—even though he wasn’t getting paid. “As a Ph.D.

Opinion pieces from C&EN staff addressing core issues in chemistry. For 300 years or so after the creation of the scientific journals, those journals would unsystematically decide what to publish on ...

Peer review is stressed by rapidly rising submission volumes, leading to deteriorating review quality and increased author dissatisfaction. Here, to address these issues, we developed Review Feedback ...