Generally, it has a negative connotation since it is commonly associated with an investigation initiated by the occurrence of an adverse event. While many times this may be the case, proactive ...

All Nature Portfolio journals, including Communications Biology, offer a double anonymized peer review option. Authors may choose this option at submission to remain anonymous to referees prior to ...

Reviewer 1: "This manuscript is a timely and important contribution to the field, with clear methodology and compelling results. I recommend publication with only minor revisions." Reviewer 2: "This ...

In higher education, peer review stands as the prime means for ensuring that scholarship is of the highest quality, and from it flows consequential assessments that shape careers, disciplines, and ...

As part of its overall strategy to strengthen audit quality, in 2014 the AICPA issued the discussion paper Enhancing Audit Quality: Plans and Perspectives for the U.S. CPA Profession, which provides a ...

A proposed change to the AICPA Peer Review Program would centralize the administration of peer reviews for firms operating under alternative practice structures, such as those with private equity ...

The peer review privilege, a critically important but often misunderstood legal protection, shields certain records and proceedings from disclosure outside the peer review process. Healthcare ...

Opinion pieces from C&EN staff addressing core issues in chemistry. For 300 years or so after the creation of the scientific journals, those journals would unsystematically decide what to publish on ...

Peer review is a central feature of academic work. It's the process through which research ends up published in an academic journal: independent experts scrutinize the work of another researcher in ...

Traditionally, scientific publishing happened behind the scenes, with only the final product of a new scientific article shared with the research community at the end of the process. The efforts of ...