Wiley and Clarivate Analytics Partner to Launch Innovative Open Peer Review

From a Joint Announcement:

John Wiley and Sons, Publons, and ScholarOne, have announced the launch of the scholarly industry’s first scalable open peer review workflow.
Through this partnership, Wiley, ScholarOne, and Publons – both part of Clarivate Analytics – have developed a robust and seamless solution to these challenges.
Beginning with Wiley’s prestigious journal Clinical Genetics, this is the first open peer review initiative to develop a scalable model applicable to diverse publishing processes. The comprehensive workflow provides alignment to best-practice data privacy regulation, ensuring the individual preferences of authors, peer reviewers and journals are met.
The new workflow enables transparent publication of an article’s complete peer review process — from initial review and response through to revision and final publication decision. Alongside the published article, readers can now 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.
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It is expected that this initiative will roll out to other journals, publishers and submission systems in the future, in line with Publons’ publisher-neutral stance.
You can explore some of the first articles published under this initiative here, for example, ‘Genetic variant spectrum in 265 Chinese patients with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis’, and its associated open review content here.

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