RSC Advances Blog

RSC Advances is delighted to announce that it has launched co-review.

RSC Advances aims to support authors, researchers and reviewers at all stages of their career. The team behind RSC Advances always endeavours to promote innovative ideas that enable opportunities for all.

We are therefore excited to announce the option for co-review at RSC Advances. The co-review process allows two individuals to collaborate on the peer review of a manuscript and both reviewers eligible for recognition through the Web of Science Reviewer Recognition Service.

The launch of co-review aims to provide a way for early career researchers who assist their supervisor reviewing a manuscript the chance for recognition and to receive credit for their contribution.

Co-review enables early-career researchers to develop their skills in peer review through collaboration with an experienced colleague and to demonstrate experience that may further their career. Please note that co-reviewers must meet the RSC’s peer reviewer eligibility criteria to review for RSC Advances. More information can be found at our Author and Reviewer Hub.

Here are what our Co-Editors in Chief had to say:

“We are really excited to launch this new initiative and to give early-career researchers the opportunity to take part in, and importantly, get recognition for their contribution to peer review. RSC Advances strives to ensure excellent peer review for all our authors and this new initiative, alongside transparent peer review, gives a strong opportunity to train and support the next generation of reviewers” – Karen Faulds, Editor-in-Chief, RSC Advances.

“The RSC Advances Reviewer Panel is at the heart of our journal. We now want to propagate that reviewing experience to the next generation of scientists, and co-review will be a great way to do this. Innovations in ScholarOne will allow experienced reviewers to pass on their expertise to more junior colleagues, and for both to get credit for the work” – Russell J. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, RSC Advances.

To support our early career researchers and those who are just starting to write reviewer reports we ran a blog series earlier this year titled ‘Perfecting Peer Review’ which provides insights from our Associate Editors in review writing. We encourage all reviewers, from the very experienced to the brand new to check out that series here!  We hope everyone will be able to find some useful tips and tricks on review writing.

To find out more about co-review, please read our Editorial here.

We wish all our reviewers the best, and we look forward to receiving your next reviewer report!