Peer Review Week 2024 - A conversation with Yasemin Aktas

Posted by UCL Open Environment Editorial Office on 2024-09-30

This year, to mark Peer Review Week, UCL Open Environment sat down with Deputy Editor, Dr Yasemin Aktas (University College London, UK) for a brief conversation on open peer review. With growing academic workloads and time devoted to other things, securing peer reviewers is becoming increasingly difficult, especially when hearing reports about canvassing large numbers of reviewers who do not [...]

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Innovation and Technology in Open Peer Review: Shaping the Future of Scholarly Publishing

Posted by UCL Open Environment Editorial Office on 2024-09-25

As we celebrate Peer Review Week 2024, the theme of “Innovation and Technology in Peer Review” invites us to reflect on how new tools and practices are transforming this critical component of scholarly communication. Traditional peer review has long been the cornerstone of academic publishing, ensuring that research is rigorously vetted before it reaches publication. However, the system has its [...]

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