By catherinepercival
15 September 2026
As Peer Review Week 2026 unfolds (September 14–18), the scholarly community faces a critical question: How can peer review systems scale while maintaining quality, trust, and fairness? This year’s theme—”Peer Review Capacity: Volume, Speed, and Quality”—reflects mounting pressures across the research ecosystem. At HRB Open Research, we believe our open peer review model offers a […]
By Jack Nash
05 June 2025
Peer review is important for academic publishing, helping to maintain quality and trust in research. After your manuscript passes our editorial checks and is published on HRB Open Research, our in-house Editorial team will invite experts from your field to carefully review the paper before it receives the ‘approved’ peer review status on the Platform. […]
By Jack Nash
30 April 2025
Peer review is an integral part of scholarly communication and academic publishing. It’s also an opportunity to provide valuable and constructive feedback to authors, helping them improve their manuscripts and to verify the quality of their research. However, writing peer review reports can be challenging, as there is no one-size-fits-all approach, and some research papers […]
When F1000 first launched, it set out to rethink how research is communicated, with the aim of greatly accelerating the sharing of new findings, bringing control of the process back to authors and the research community, and providing transparency across the full process, from underlying research data and code through to open peer review. These remain crucial principles on which all the F1000 platforms are based, including HRB Open Research. In this blog, Managing Director Rebecca Lawrence outlines the first of several adjustments to the F1000 publishing model – the move to editorial-led peer review.
By Jack Nash
30 April 2024
Science communication, particularly science journalism, is central to disseminating the latest research to policymakers, practitioners, the public, and other stakeholders. However, it’s vital that the research being communicated is sound and reliable to avoid misinformation and mistrust of research.
By Jack Nash
04 April 2024
We explore how co-reviewing can help to improve peer review and provide opportunities for researchers that are often overlooked in the process.
By Guest Author
25 September 2023
In honour of Peer Review Week, we’re exploring five ways to align peer review practices with the future of publishing, and how HRB Open Research is already working towards this.
By Guest Author
30 September 2022
In this blog, we explore this year’s Peer Review Week theme of ‘Research Integrity: Creating and supporting trust in research’, and how our transparent peer review process contributes to this.
