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30 news posts in Peer review

Frontiers news

09 Jan 2024

Safeguarding peer review to ensure quality at scale

In the context of climate emergency, making scientific research open has never been more important. But for research to be trusted, it must be of the highest quality. Facing an industry-wide rise in fraudulent science, Frontiers has increased its focus on safeguarding quality.

Science for all with compatible AI

Watch Mirjam Eckert, chief publishing officer at Frontiers, introduce the publisher and demystify its machine learning tool. With thanks to the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute. Photo credit: Frontiers Human compatible Artificial Intelligence (AI) could empower us all. But public trust in good science will be key. At Frontiers, we apply AI to help build that trust. Our Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant (AIRA) verifies that scientific knowledge is accurately and honestly presented even before our people decide whether to review, endorse, or publish the research paper that contains it. AIRA reads every research manuscript we receive and makes up to 20 checks a second. These checks cover, among other things, language quality, the integrity of figures and images, plagiarism, and conflicts of interest. The results give editors and reviewers another perspective as they decide whether to put a research paper through our rigorous and transparent peer review. We face global, existential threats, from health emergencies to climate change. We can manage and reverse these threats, for healthy lives on a healthy planet – with political will, global collaboration, and scientific breakthrough at a scale not yet seen. On all those counts, success will depend on the widespread sharing of the latest […]

Frontiers news

10 Aug 2021

Research Integrity: Identifying and tackling peer review fraud

Research Integrity Specialist Andrew Gardyne discusses the importance of peer-review, trust in science, and how his team work to detect suspicious behaviour.

Frontiers news

09 Jul 2021

Research integrity: A closer look at gel and Western Blot image cropping

In this blog, we take a closer look at the issues surrounding Gel and Western Blot image cropping.

Frontiers news

20 Apr 2021

Rigorous, constructive, efficient and transparent – collaborative peer review

Yasmin Dahesh, Review Operations Specialist takes a closer look at collaborative peer review.

Artificial Intelligence to help meet global demand for high-quality, objective peer-review in publishing 2

In an industry first, we are delighted to announce our Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant (AIRA) platform is available to support editors, reviewers and authors evaluate the quality of manuscripts and help meet global demand for high-quality, objective peer-review in publishing.

Frontiers news

01 Jul 2020

Artificial Intelligence to help meet global demand for high-quality, objective peer-review in publishing

The integration of AIRA — Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant — into Frontiers’ digital peer-review platform enables faster, more efficient quality control and manuscript handling

Frontiers news

10 Jun 2020

Rejection – sand in the oyster.

Rejection makes you stronger and good research should not be wasted! Read our blog about why rejection is important to science, and why to take it with a positive attitude.

Frontiers news

03 Jun 2020

Submitting your paper to Frontiers? Find out what happens next.

What happens when you submit a paper to Frontiers? Here, our team take a closer look at what happens between submission and publication.

Peer Review: Editors at Frontiers

Considering becoming an editor for journals in your research community? What are the different editor roles at Frontiers and how do we support you? Find out more.