Clarivate Analytics Expands Transparent Peer Review Pilot with Wiley to New Titles

Publons and ScholarOne collaborate on the addition of leading international journals to the Transparent Peer Review project

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Wiley has expanded its Transparent Peer Review project with the addition of ten further leading international journals. Clarivate companies - Publons, the world's largest peer review platform and ScholarOne, the leading manuscript submission system - launched the scholarly industry's first scalable open peer review workflow system from peer review through to revision and publication decision with Wiley in September 2018.

This expansion demonstrates the robustness of this new workflow solution that enables transparent publication of an article's complete peer review process — from initial review and response through to revision and final publication decision. In addition, alongside the published article, readers can review a comprehensive peer review history. Each element of the peer review process has also been assigned its own digital object identifier (DOI), enabling future authors to easily reference and cite relevant peer review content.

The first phase of the Transparent Peer Review project began in September 2018 with Wiley's prestigious journal Clinical Genetics. The success of that initial phase has now resulted in Wiley rolling out the pilot to a further ten leading international journals:

• Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism
• European Journal of Immunology
• European Journal of Neuroscience
• Hematological Oncology
• Journal of Advanced Nursing
• Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
• Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B
• Molecular Oral Microbiology
• Traffic
• Wind Energy

Chris Graf, Director, Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics at Wiley, commented:  "The integrity of research is paramount for the scholarly publishing system and it is vital that we are able to provide the best services and resources to support the ongoing sustainable growth of our publishing programme and the wider scholarly publishing ecosystem. The first phase of this pilot has proved very positive and provided incredibly valuable insight. We will continue to share our findings on how this initiative is progressing—our goal is that this initiative can continue to scale, involving more journals and other publishers in the future."

Andrew Preston, Managing Director, Publons, said: "We are proud to be scaling out the transparent review initiative alongside Wiley. Our recently released Global State of Peer Review report highlights the growing demand for increased transparency in peer review, particularly amongst younger researchers. The first phase of the pilot had even better opt in rates than we expected, confirming researcher demand for transparency, and ran smoothly, confirming that our technology will scale. We look forward to deploying this further and bringing transparent peer review to journals across a broad range of disciplines."

Examples of some of the first articles published during the first phase of the initiative are available here, e.g., 'Genetic variant spectrum in 265 Chinese patients with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis', and its associated open review content here. 

Read more about the development of this project on the Wiley Network.

About Wiley
Wiley is a global leader in research and education. Our online scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, and our digital learning, assessment, certification and student-lifecycle services and solutions help universities, academic societies, businesses, governments and individuals to achieve their academic and professional goals. For more than 200 years, we have delivered consistent performance to our stakeholders. The Company's website can be accessed at www.wiley.com.

About Publons
Publons works with researchers, publishers and research institutions to speed up science and research by harnessing the power of peer review. Publons, founded in 2013 and now part of Clarivate Analytics, has offices in Wellington, New Zealand and London, UK.  For more information, please visit: publons.com | https://www.facebook.com/publons/    T: @publons

About ScholarOne
ScholarOne provides comprehensive workflow management systems for scholarly journals, books, and conferences. The ScholarOne web-based applications enable publishers and societies to manage the submission, peer review, production, and publication process more efficiently and access intelligent information to help make strategic decisions.

About Clarivate Analytics
Clarivate Analytics is the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation. Building on a heritage going back more than a century and a half, we have built some of the most trusted brands across the innovation lifecycle, including Web of Science, Cortellis, Derwent, CompuMark, MarkMonitor and Techstreet. Today, Clarivate Analytics is a new and independent company on a bold entrepreneurial mission to help our clients radically reduce the time from new ideas to life-changing innovations. For more information, please visit clarivate.com.