Celebrating Peer Review Week, 23–27 September 2024

International Peer Review Week is a celebration of the peer review process and its crucial role in academia. This independent, community-led effort highlights the essential role of peer review in maintaining the integrity and effectiveness of academic work.  

MDPI is joining forces with institutions, organizations, publishers, and individuals from around the world to highlight that reliable peer review, in any format, is key to upholding integrity in scholarly publishing. 

The 2024 Peer Review Week, set for September 23−27, will focus on "Innovation and Technology in Peer Review." Over the course of the week, we will host online webinars from both Europe and Asia-Pacific, in-person events in China, publish new blogs and articles exploring the week’s theme, and provide content across our social platforms to highlight MDPI’s peer review process and the ongoing vital role of peer review in shaping scholarly communication.  

Discover more below and join us throughout the week!

Peer Review Webinar: Roundtable Discussion on Innovation and Technology in Peer Review 

We are pleased to present this roundtable discussion, co-moderated by Dr. Ioana Craciun, MDPI's Scientific Communications Specialist, and Dr. Enric Sayas, MDPI's AI Business Analyst, which featured a panel of scholars and industry experts.  

This year we explored the concept of "Innovation and Technology in Peer Review," a theme chosen through a global poll to represent the collective voice of the academic world.

In the video above, watch our panelists share expert insights and experiences on how to enhance the future of peer review.

The main topics for discussion included:

• Exploring available tools that are driving innovation
• Assessing the benefits and challenges associated with integrating AI within the peer review  process 
• What is currently in the pipeline? 
• What can we expect in the future of peer review?    

Date: 24 September 2024

Time: 15:00 CEST | 09:00 EDT | 21:00 CST

English Reviewer Club (Webinar)

We are privileged to have Professor Brian Garrod, a leading expert in sustainable tourism, destination management, and ecotourism, as our chair. With over 60 refereed journal papers, eight textbooks, and extensive collaborations with global organizations like the World Tourism Organization and the OECD, Professor Garrod brings a wealth of knowledge to our session.

We are also pleased to have Dr. Enric Sayas, who will be presenting on MDPI’s cutting-edge AI tools. The main topics for discussion during the roundtable will include:

1. Enhancing Peer Review: Complementing Human Expertise with AI 
2. Expanding Reviewer Diversity: Leveraging AI to Include Under-Represented Scholars
3. Tackling Research Integrity Issues with Technological Innovations
4. Future of Peer Review: Collaborative Approaches Integrating Technology and Human Insight
5. Achieving Equitable Peer Review: Opportunities and Challenges with AI Integration

Date: 26 September 2024 

Time: 3:00 pm CEST | 9:00 pm CST Asia

Join us via Zoom here.

Find Out More about Innovation and Technology at MDPI  

Supporting the theme of this year’s Peer Review Week, we will take a deeper dive into the innovation and technology used in the peer review process at MDPI. 

We are committed to staying up-to-date with the latest technological developments to safeguard our editorial processes and provide our authors and reviewers with a seamless experience. 

Over the course of the week, you can follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube for new content and videos relating to our author and reviewer surveys, MDPI exclusive tools and technology, and the latest notifications and information on our news and in-person and online events. 

Our in-house content team released a blog article discussing New Tools for Advancing Research Integrity and Peer Review, where we highlight two tools that MDPI has developed to support research integrity: Eureka - Reviewer Recommender and Online Proofreader. 

In our article Advancing Research Integrity with SuSy Innovations, we introduce you to MDPI’s values and how they informed the development of SuSy, our in-house online submission system.

We are also sharing what is in store for the upcoming release of Eureka – Reviewer Recommender in our interview with its Project Manager, Di-Fan Lin. 

We welcome you to like and comment on our content and start a conversation with the global community. 

Listening to MDPI's Authors and Reviewers

We highly value the time of our reviewers and so do the authors in our journals. Our editorial process is bolstered by a network of dedicated reviewers, a team of over 6000 diligent, well-trained staff members, and an in-house article submission platform that was designed to ensure efficient processes. 

We make it a point to continually improve the experiences of both our authors and our reviewers throughout the entire editorial process, from submission to publication. This is why we regularly ask for feedback through conducting surveys. Here is what some of our respondents had to say about working with MDPI: