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What is transparent peer review? All primary research papers published in Nature Communications that are submitted from November 1 st, 2022 will have a corresponding peer review file containing the ...

Nyssa Silbiger still recalls the rude remark that reviewer three made in 2014 about her first paper describing her PhD research. “The phrases I have so far avoided using in this review are, ‘lipstick ...

In July, the National Institutes of Health released a request for information seeking public input on a proposed policy to limit allowable publication costs — the portion of grant funds researchers ...

Some scholarly publishers are embracing artificial intelligence tools to help improve the quality and pace of peer-reviewed research in an effort to alleviate the longstanding peer review crisis ...

Some requests by reviewers to cite their own publications are coercive and can unnecessarily delay indexation and publication.