LibGuides: Editing a Scholarly Journal: Peer Review

Recognizing peer review activity

Using ORCID to record peer review activity
Publons
A platform for researchers to track metrics, peer review activity, and journal editing.
Reviewer Credits

PCI Peer Community In review
A free recommendation process of scientific
preprints based on peer reviews
Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review (Career Column)
The author makes a case for using AI in peer review and provides an example workflow.

Journal publishers often provide advice to journal editors. These are some examples, but be sure and check with your journal's publisher as well.

Publishers (such as the examples above) and others typically recommend the following sources for building your pool of peer reviewers.

Asking your board for recommendations
Using the reference list of the submitted paper
Previous authors in your journal
Use research databases such as Web of Science or Scopus
When someone declines an invitation to review, ask them for suggestions
Use the manuscript management system features to register reviewers by categories
Consider implementing a reviewer recognition option such as Publons

NISO Standard for Peer Review Terminology
In June of 2023, the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) published a set of standard terminology for peer-review.
Best Practices for Peer Review (Association of University Presses)
The Association of University Presses offers this handbook of Best Practices for Peer Review as a resource for member publishers, acquisitions editors both new and experienced, faculty editorial boards, scholarly authors and researchers, and new scholarly publishing programs.
Anti-Racist Scholarly Reviewing Practices: A Heuristic for Editors, Reviewers, and Authors
This guide provides "guidance on anti-racist professional practices in the form of a heuristic for editors, reviewers, and authors involved in academic reviewing."

Driving integrity and trust in research: a Peer Review Toolkit
A thorough guide to conducting an ethical peer review created for Peer Review Week 2023.
Wiley Author Services - Reviewer Resources
This resource includes a step-by-step guide to conducting a peer review of a journal or book.
Web of Science Academy
Web of Science offers free courses on many topics, including three separate peer review courses: Introduction to Peer Review, Reviewing in the Sciences, and Reviewing in the Humanities. Although these courses are open enrollment, attendees are first required to create a free user account.
PREreview
PREreview's mission is to bring more equity and transparency to scholarly peer review by supporting and empowering communities of researchers, particularly those at early stages of their career (ECRs) and historically excluded, to review preprints in a process that is rewarding to them.