Improving the Reporting of Clinical Research – An Editor’s View
Dr David L Schriger| Deputy Editor, Annals of Emergency Medicine As well as his role as Deputy Editor of the Annals of Emergency Medicine, Dr Schriger is also a member of the CONSORT and EQUATOR...
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Dr Michael L Callaham, MD | Editor-in-Chief, Annals of Emergency Medicine Dr Michael L Callaham, MD, is Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the...
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Peer Review Challenge Winners Unveiled
"This Challenge has shown that the scientific community is keen to publicly and systematically acknowledge reviewers’ work..." Philippe Terheggen, Senior Vice President, Physical Sciences II Since the...
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Faking Peer Reviews
Tom Reller | Vice President of Global Corporate Relations, Elsevier This article originally appeared in Elsevier Connect Yesterday, Ivan Oransky of Retraction Watch reported that Elsevier Editorial...
View ArticleUpdate on EES User Profile Consolidation
Edward O'Breen | Marketing and Brand Manager, Elsevier In a recent post on the Short Communications Board, our Vice President of Corporate Relations, Tom Reller, discussed the hacking of EES, our...
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Journal Cortex launches Registered Reports
Dr Chris Chambers and Professor Sergio Della Sala | Associate Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Cortex On May 1st, Cortex launched a new innovation in scientific publishing called a...
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Recognizing your top reviewers
We know that finding and retaining good reviewers is one of the greatest challenges our editors face. In March this year, we collaborated with editors on 32 journals to find a simple way to recognize...
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New ‘Streamline’ peer-review process piloted by Virology
Dr Michael Emerman | Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Virology Established in 1954, Virology is one of the oldest journals in its field and publishes the results of basic research in all...
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How we can better support and recognize reviewers
We know that finding, retaining and rewarding reviewers are long-term pain points for editors. Scientists are increasingly busy and often find it difficult to free up time to do reviews. At the same...
View ArticleEstablishing new revision times for Elsevier journals
Arnout Jacobs | Business Development Director, Elsevier Sometimes, even simple things can make a big difference. An Elsevier project designed to reassess reviewer and revision times is large-scale,...
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How small changes can influence reviewer behavior
Raj Chetty, PhD, is the Bloomberg Professor of Economics at Harvard University Department of Economics and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Public Economics. Together with two colleagues - Emmanuel Saez,...
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An author’s experience of peer review
Mounir Adjrad is currently a researcher within the Engineering and Design department at London South Bank University (LSBU). His current research interests are Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology...
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Finding reviewers in EES just got easier…
Egbert van Wezenbeek | Director Publication Process Development, Elsevier The Find Reviewers application in the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) was built to help you locate appropriate reviewers. Since...
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Why I wouldn’t want to be without Scopus; an editor’s story
In his role as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Professor William S Neilson relies heavily on the information contained in Elsevier’s Scopus – the largest...
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How one editor is attracting new reviewers
Ask any journal editor to name their top three pain points and you will frequently hear "finding reviewers". With researchers so busy and the number of journal submissions on the rise, it is a common...
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Elsevier’s Reviewer Recognition Platform prepares for next phase
Earlier this year, we reported on the new Elsevier Reviewer Recognition Platform in the Editors' Update article How we can better support and recognize reviewers. Since the platform's launch, we have...
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Experimenting with collaborative peer review
At Elsevier, we are focused on working with our journal editors and reviewers to improve and streamline the peer-review process. So when we acquired the global research management and collaboration...
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What researchers think about the peer-review process
Peer review is the cornerstone of scholarly publishing, but it can be a source of frustration for researchers. Criticisms levelled against it include claims that it slows down publication speed,...
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