MDPI Reviewer Club Webinar 2025 | Join Our First Engineering Session (Thursday, 4 September 2025)
MDPI is pleased to invite you to a special webinar titled MDPI Reviewer Club 2025 | Engineering Session 1.
As the inaugural session, this event has been created as a space for reviewers in the engineering field to come together, share their experiences, and reflect on their contributions to advancing scholarly communication. It will also provide an opportunity to learn more about the review process, exchange best practices, and explore new ways of strengthening collaboration within the research community.
Main topics for discussion include the following:
- The Slippery Art of Judging Peers: Pitfalls and Guidelines to Effectively Conduct a Scholarly Review;
- Behind the Red Pen: My Journey and Philosophy as a Reviewer;
- Q&A Session.
With consent from the speakers, presentations will be recorded and later shared on our online platforms, together with short introductions and discussion threads to continue the conversation.
This is the first session of the MDPI Reviewer Club 2025 series, focusing on Engineering. Future sessions will feature other subjects, offering reviewers from different disciplines the opportunity to exchange insights and experiences.
We look forward to welcoming you to the MDPI Reviewer Club 2025 | Engineering Session 1.
Keywords: peer review, reviewer guidelines, reviewer experience, ethics in peer review
Date: 4 September 2025 | 3:00 p.m. CEST | 9:00 p.m. CST Asia | 9:00 a.m EDT
Webinar ID: 826 9500 8709
Website: https://sciforum.net/event/MRC2025-ES1
Register now for free!
Program:
| Speaker | Presentation Title | Time in CEST | Time in EDT |
| Ms. Diana Mara Fage | Introduction | 3:00–3:10 p.m. | 9:00–9:10 a.m. |
| Prof. Dr. Mark Reybrouck | The Slippery Art of Judging Peers: Pitfalls and Guidelines to Effectively Conduct a Scholarly Review | 3:10–3:30 p.m. | 9:10–9:30 a.m. |
| Dr. Giacomo Peruzzi | Behind the Red Pen: My Journey and Philosophy as a Reviewer | 3:30–3:50 p.m. | 9:30–9:50 a.m. |
| Q&A Session | 3:50–4:10 p.m. | 9:50–10:10 a.m. | |
| Ms. Diana Mara Fage | Closing of Webinar | 4:10–4:20 p.m. | 10:10–10:20 a.m. |
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email on how to join the webinar. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.
Unable to attend? Register anyway, and we will let you know when the recording is available for viewing.
Webinar Speakers:
- Prof. Dr. Em. Mark Reybrouck, University of Leuven and Ghent, Belgium;
- Dr. Giacomo Peruzzi, University of Padova, Italy.