8 August 2019
The Web of Science Group (a Clarivate Analytics company) has entered into a new partnership with Emerald Publishing to pilot a cross-publisher, scalable and transparent peer review workflow from Publons and ScholarOne across three of Emerald’s journals.
Transparent peer review shows the complete peer review process from initial review to final decision, and has gained popularity with authors, reviewers and editors in recent years.
The new peer review service will be rolled out across Online Information Review, Industrial Lubrication and Tribology and the International Journal of Social Economics. The workflows ensure that alongside the published article, readers can access a peer review history, including reviewer reports, editor decision letters and authors’ responses. Each of these elements is assigned its own digital object identifier (DOI), which helps readers reference and cite the peer review content. Transparency can also aid teaching of best practice in peer review. The transparent peer review workflow complies with best-practice data privacy regulation.
Emerald is the third publisher to pilot the transparent peer review workflows, which were implemented by Wiley and IOP Publishing earlier this year.