Peer review is fundamental to scientific publishing, wherein a jury of experts ensure that published work meets the standards of quality, rigor, and relevance. Editorial decisions are traditionally ...

When Ulises Perez skimmed through the reviewer comments he had received on his rejected application for the US National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), he was taken ...

How do editors select reviewers? A number of factors determine our choice of reviewers. Of primary importance is the reviewer’s expertise, as it is essential that we receive expert feedback on all ...

Peer review is often the key hurdle between obtaining some data and getting it published in the scientific literature. As such, it’s often essential to keeping questionable results out of the ...

An editor or reviewer can have an outsize impact on the career of a scholar, particularly in the early stages. The stakes can be high for an author. A negative review or edit can set back a research ...

made a significant and positive contribution to the peer review process, regardless of whether the paper was eventually accepted by the journal; taken both a broad and detailed view of the paper; ...

Expert reviewers from across the chemical sciences and at all career stages. In addition to our standard database of reviewers RSC Advances has a Reviewer Panel, made up of global expert reviewers ...