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SciPost's Peer Review Method: Peer-Witnessed Refereeing.

Principles of SciPost's Peer-Witnessed Refereeing

Reporting

Ratings

Contributors thus have additional incentives to actively participate and provide not only high-quality Submissions, but also Reports and Comments of the highest achievable professional caliber (an online search form allows to retrieve back-end-aggregated statistics by performing a search by researcher's name).

Abusive behaviour is prevented by Editorial vetting of all Reports, Replies and Comments before public posting.


Motivations

Shortcomings of traditional refereeing

The traditional approach to refereeing is sub-optimal for a number of reasons: the choice of referees is exclusive to Journal editors; only up to a handful of referees are consulted; the best potential referees are not necessarily chosen; one cannot, as a specialist, volunteer to report on a paper (manuscript shortcomings are thus very often not flagged before publication); closed-door refereeing, with reports viewable only by editors and authors, is not fully accountable (referee reports are thus often of low quality); refereeing work is not credited (the quality of reports thus further suffers from a lack of incentive).


Submission and Refereeing procedure

Submission

To submit your article for publication in a SciPost Journal, you must:

  1. Make your preprint publicly available on arXiv
  2. After appearance on arXiv, fill the SciPost Submission form, choosing which SciPost Journal you wish to submit to.

Note that you cannot submit directly to SciPost Physics Select. Submissions to SciPost Physics Letters deemed of superlative qualty will be editorially promoted to SPS.


Refereeing procedure

The precise procedure differs slightly between SciPost Journals but follows this pattern:

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