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Background: Peer to peer learning is a well-established learning modality which has been shown to improve learning outcomes, with positive implications for clinical practice. Surgical students from across Ireland were invited to upload learning point...

As an advocate of the transparency on the peer review process, during the last months, I’ve been working with MDPI to implant a new system of open peer review, under which the peer-review reports and authors’ responses are published as an integral...

In the world of academic research and scientific publishing, the process of peer review plays a pivotal role [...]

Peer review supports the integrity and quality of scientific publishing. However, although it is a fundamental part of the publishing process, peer review can also be challenging for reviewers, editors, and other stakeholders. The present study aims...

Beginning with an historical reminiscence, this paper examines the peer review process as experienced by authors currently seeking publication of their research in a highly controversial area. A case study of research into the events of 9/11 (11 Sept...

There is a large amount of Information Technology and Communication (ITC) tools that surround scholar activity. The prominent place of the peer-review process upon publication has promoted a crowded market of technological tools in several formats. D...

This paper presents an approach to conduct risk assessments of complex incentive systems, using a case study of the normative Peer Review Process (PRP). This research centers on appliances and adaptations of the Conflicting Incentives Risk Analysis (...

Research expands the boundaries of a subject, economy, and civilization. Peer review is at the heart of research and is understandably an expensive process. This work, with human-in-the-loop, aims to support the research community in multiple ways. I...

To be high quality and international recognized scientific journal for health care professions, such as medical and nursing disciplines, a well-structured and effective peer review system is of an utmost importance. Beckstead (2009) in his guest edit...

Background: Refugees and asylum seekers face many social and psychological challenges on their journey to resettlement in host countries. Interventions and programmes designed to assist in these challenges are necessary. The aim of this scoping revie...

In the face of the energy crisis and the ever-increasing earth’s temperature, one of the ways to deal with these two challenges is to make better use of the existing resources, decoupling, and the circular economy. The solution for the full use...

Background: Quality management tools such as clinical peer reviews facilitate root cause analysis and may, ultimately, help to reduce surgery-related morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to evaluate the reliability of a standardized questionnair...

Background: Review-based research is needed which can establish the psychosocial outcomes and mechanisms of “storytelling and sharing” interventions for people with stroke. This information will act to inform the value and development of such interve...

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The current peer review system is under stress from ever increasing numbers of publications, the proliferation of open-access journals and an apparent difficulty in obtaining high-quality reviews in due time. At its core, this issue may be caused by...

Fairness in peer review is of vital importance in academic activities. Current peer review systems focus on matching suitable experts with proposals but often ignore the existence of outliers. Previous research has shown that outlier scores in review...

Scientists observe, discover, justify and eventually share their findings with the scientific community. Dissemination is an integral aspect of scientific discovery, since discoveries which go unnoticed have no or little impact on science. Today, pee...

Nowadays one of the main focuses of the Spanish University system is achieving the active learning paradigm in the context of its integration into the European Higher Education Area. This goal is being addressed by means of the application of novel t...

Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that ensures the security and transparency of data, guaranteeing that they cannot be altered. Its application in the peer review of scientific papers can contribute to improving the integrity, transparenc...

Suicide bereavement support groups are a widely available format of postvention service. Although other reviews have addressed peer-led bereavement interventions, no review has focused specifically on peer-led support for people bereaved by suicide....

Overdose prevention for people who use illicit drugs is essential during the current overdose crisis. Peer support is a process whereby individuals with lived or living experience of a particular phenomenon provide support to others by explicitly dra...

Introduction: Psychiatric services are gradually becoming more recovery-orientated. With such orientation came the peer movement, a process which began during the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s and has grown exponentially since. In June...

Sci (ISSN 2413-4155) is an international, open-access journal that covers most fields of scientific research. It has set out to challenge the conventional single- and double-blind peer review processes by adopting a post-publication public peer revie...

Scientific publishing is experiencing unprecedented growth in terms of outputs across all fields. Inevitably this creates pressure throughout the system on a number of entities. One key element is represented by peer-reviewers, whose demand increases...

Manuscript reviewers and the accuracy of the review process are fundamental to the quality of a scientific journal and authors place tremendous confidence in peer reviewers’ impartiality [...]

In order to promote the sustainable development of students’ learning capabilities, students are expected to take an active role in the feedback process. Ideally, students should not only actively interpret and act on the feedback received from their...

Peer review is the way in which we, as scientists, criticise, check, and confirm the findings of our colleagues. The process of peer review relies on individuals in all fields applying their particular expertise and determining if they agree with the...

We have taken the decision that all manuscripts submitted to Buildings after 5 December 2015 will be reviewed using a double-blind peer-review process.[...]

Peer review is an essential part of the publication process, ensuring that Processes maintains high quality standards for its published papers.[...]

After a rigorous peer review process, twelve papers were accepted and published [...]

Peer review is the driving force of journal development, and reviewers are gatekeepers who ensure that Processes maintains its standards for the high quality of its published papers [...]

We are pleased to announce that all manuscripts submitted to Laws after 10 October 2015 will be reviewed using a double blind peer-review process. [...]

In response to the persistent imbalance between the rapid expansion of scholarly publishing and the constrained availability of qualified reviewers, an empirical investigation was conducted to examine the feasibility and boundary conditions of employ...

In a media-saturated online ecosystem, educational technology that fosters virtual interactions and learning opportunities, unlike those taking place face-to-face, has to bear special characteristics that facilitate the way we build our connection wi...

We are pleased to announce that all manuscripts submitted to Education Sciences after 1 July 2015 will be reviewed using a double blind peer-review process. [...]

Dear Readers, As part of a continued effort to improve the quality of our papers and the transparency of the publication process, Cosmetics will introduce in the near future the possibility for the Authors to choose an Open Peer Review process (OPR)...

We develop and apply a systematic literature review methodology to identify and characterize the ways in which the peer-reviewed literature depicts how climate change adaptation is occurring in Australia. We reviewed the peer-reviewed, English-langua...

The peer review process represents the driving force of journal development, with reviewers acting as the gatekeepers who ensure that Clocks & Sleep maintains its high-quality standard of published papers [...]

High-quality academic publishing is built on a rigorous peer review process, and Games is no exception, upholding its high standards for published papers due to the outstanding efforts of our reviewers [...]

Following publication, concerns were raised regarding the peer-review process related to the publication of this article [...]

Following publication, concerns were raised regarding the peer-review process related to the publication of this article [...]

Following publication, concerns were raised regarding the peer-review process related to the publication of this article [...]

Following publication, concerns were raised regarding the peer-review process related to the publication of this article [...]

Following publication, concerns were raised regarding the peer-review process related to the publication of this article [...]

Following publication, concerns were raised regarding the peer-review process related to the publication of this article [...]

Following publication, concerns were raised regarding the peer-review process related to the publication of this article [...]

Following publication, concerns were raised regarding the peer-review process related to the publication of this article [...]

Following publication, concerns were raised regarding the peer-review process related to the publication of this article [...]

Following publication, concerns were raised regarding the peer-review process related to the publication of this article [...]

Following publication, concerns were raised regarding the peer-review process related to the publication of this article [...]