The best way to provide scientific peer review
Peer review is the mainstream of scientific progress and is perceived as a method for establishing quality or scholarly legitimacy for research. However, the current peer review system suffers from several flaws.
Smartpeereviewers is an initiative promoted by the scientific community whose main objective is to dignify the work of reviewers. We are a platform that brings together reviewers who would offer their services under new standards.
Flaws of the current peer review system
Time consuming
The mean time to review an article is 2 hours
Abscence of reward
Despite the increasing growth of open access journals, peer review is still not paid
Difficulty in finding reviewers by journals
Journal editors suffer more and more from finding reviewers
Biased and inconsistent reviews
Quality of reviews is extremely variable
Slow process
Difficulties in finding reviewers and the editorial work slow down the whole process
Need for new standards
There is a call in the scientific community for a change
What does smartpeerreviewers offer?
Large database of well-annotated reviewers
With our platform of well annotated and scored reviewers, we offer expedite finding of reviewers
High-quality and unbiased reviews
Our large platform of scored reviewers offer unprecedented high-quality and reproducible reviews
Payment for review once and for all
In recent years we have witnessed a spectacular increase in the number of medical journals, many in Open Access. These journals request high fees for publications. In this business, reviewers do not receive any payment.
Easiness and speed up process for journals
Peer review activities are part of our routine commitments and compete with other responsibilities. Payment for review will formalize this function and let editors and publishers insist on tight timelines
