Elsevier trials publishing peer review reports as articles
Publishing Innovation Manager Dr. Bahar Mehmani | Director Publishing Innovation Dr. Joris van Rossum While papers published in journals occasionally contain thanks to anonymous or named referees; for...
View ArticleHow Cortex’s Registered Reports initiative is making reform a reality
Journals offering Registered Reports agree to review study protocols before experiments are conducted. If the protocols are judged to have merit the journal commits, in advance, to publishing the...
View ArticleWhy establishing manuscript rejection rules could improve your journal
Submissions are the fuel that drives a journal forward, but what happens when there are too many to handle? At the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, we developed the ‘Rules of 5’ to help control the...
View ArticleElsevier initiative leads to faster revision and review times
An Elsevier project designed to streamline reviewer and author revision times has led to an average increase in editorial speeds of 7 days for participating journals, with several titles recording...
View ArticleMultidisciplinary open access journal Heliyon now accepting submissions
In the last edition of Editors’ Update, we highlighted the impending launch of Heliyon – Elsevier’s new open access journal publishing sound research across all disciplines. Since then, the journal has...
View ArticleNew editorial system EVISE® helps editors find reviewers
Every year, researchers submit around 1.2 million manuscripts to 2,300 Elsevier journals; 1.3 million reviewers support the peer review process and 350,000 articles are published. The submission and...
View ArticleReviewers can now list all their review history in one place
Our latest functionality to the Reviewer Recognition platform enables reviewers to create a public Reviewer Page, listing all their respective peer review activities. In a few simple steps, reviewers...
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