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Making the most of reviewer resources
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | l ast April, Nature Neuroscience announced that it would join the newly established Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium (NPRC) and that we would offer our authors whose papers were no longer under consideration an opportunity to transfer their reviews when submitting their paper to another consortium journal 1. The editors of the consortium journals were recently polled to evaluate the success of NPRC over the last year and, surprisingly, most journals reported that only 1–2% of the manuscripts they received had been forwarded from another consortium journal or sent out from the journal to other participants. Our experience with the consortium has not been much different, with only a handful of papers being transferred from Nature Neuroscience to another consortium journal. We will continue our participation in the NPRC for this year and encourage more authors to take advantage of this process. The NPRC was officially launched in January 2008 with the aim of providing a system that would speed up the review process and reduce the workload for reviewers and editors. Over 33 journals now participate in the consortium (http://nprc.incf.org). Similar to the Nature journals' transfer system, the NPRC system is completely voluntary for authors. Editors at one journal only know that a paper was reviewed elsewhere if the author chooses to inform them. Likewise, referees also have the option of opting out. Many journals in the consortium ask the referees to state at the time of reviewing a paper whether the editors may release their names along with the review in the event that a paper is transferred to another journal. At Nature Neuroscience, the editors contact the referees and ask for their permission to release their identities whenever authors ask for their papers to be transferred to another consortium journal. If a reviewer declines to participate, the reviews (comments to authors only) are transferred anonymously. Comments to editors are never transferred, even when the referee agrees to be identified to the receiving journal. Finally, the editors have full discretion in deciding how to use the transferred reviews. To date, we have had only a handful of transfers to other member journals (all to the Journal of Neuroscience), representing less than 1% of manuscripts that are eventually rejected after review. However, for the papers that were eventually published in the Journal of Neuroscience, the authors reported that the paper had been expedited. Even in the cases where new referees … |
| Starting Page | 363 |
| Ending Page | 363 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1038/nn0409-363 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v12/n4/pdf/nn0409-363.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0409-363 |
| Volume Number | 12 |
| Journal | Nature Neuroscience |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
