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How it will work - Authors and reviewers can choose to opt in or out of the process at submission
- Authors are under no
obligation to take part and can opt out anytime
- Authors must follow guidelines published on the journal Submission Portal and ADD their preference for Transparent Peer Review in their COVER letter.
- The manuscript will be reviewed double blind and
anonymous should reviewers NOT want to participate.
- If an author, reviewer, or editor, chooses to opt out, the review process for that paper will not be published and remain anonymous and double blind
- Reviewers can choose whether their reviews are signed or remain anonymous
- If a reviewer is invited to review a manuscript and wishes to participate, the reviewer simply needs to accept the invitation. An accepted open review invitation from the managing editor will serve as consent to participate in the transparent peer review.
- If the reviewer is not comfortable with their review being published, they should decline to
review the manuscript.
- Publication - there are many different types of open peer review, and platforms for output. At PDH, open review reports will be published in full and labeled as “Supporting Information” with the same DOI number as the article, alongside the journal article. This gives readers full access to the peer review process from submission to publication and includes a comprehensive peer review history,
posted with the article formats.
Notes: • PDH journals participating in the initiative will continue to use double blind anonymous peer review during the review process as the default if open review is declined • Review materials are not made available until the article is published • Open Transparent Peer Review will be published online only if the author of the manuscript has opted in and the manuscript is accepted by editors. • If the author chooses to participate in a transparent peer review, the anonymous reviews and the author’s response to the reviewers’ comments will be published as supporting information, freely available alongside the article at the time of
publication. • In cases where a manuscript has been transferred from a journal that does not participate in Transparent Peer Review to a journal that does, any reviews submitted to the original journal will not be published. |
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