How long does the review process take Frontiers?
Our Collaborative Review Forum guides authors, reviewers and editors smoothly through the review process and alerts them when any action is required. This has shortened the average time from submission to final decision to 90 days.
What is a review editor Frontiers?
Frontiers Review Editors receive regular invitations to provide an expert review of submitted manuscripts in a collaborative, transparent and efficient manner during the Frontiers peer review. They provide an independent review report after which they interact with the authors directly to help improve a manuscript.
How do you become a Frontiers reviewer?
Manuscripts submitted to Frontier Scientific Publishing journals are reviewed by at least two experts. Reviewers are asked to evaluate the quality of the manuscript and to provide a recommendation to the external editor on whether a manuscript can be accepted, requires revisions or should be rejected.
What’s wrong with peer review?
The editorial peer review process has been strongly biased against `negative studies’, i.e. studies that find an intervention does not work. It is also clear that authors often do not even bother to write up such studies. This matters because it biases the information base of medicine.
Is Frontiers in Psychology peer reviewed?
Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology.
What is a review editor?
The primary role of review editors is to act as reviewers in the peer-review of submitted manuscripts.
Do reviewers see the authors?
No, the reviewers remain anonymous. In rare cases, authors have come tous and have said that the reviewer improved their paper so much that they wouldlike them listed as a co-author. Then the editor can approach the reviewer to findout whether they are happy to become known to the authors.
How much do peer reviewers get paid?
A vital, and often overlooked, aspect of peer review is that in the current system, peer reviewers are normally not paid for their work. They are, instead, rewarded non-financially by means of acknowledgment in journals, positions on editorial boards, free journal access, discounts on author fees, etc.