Here is the official peer review policy for RIDD: In order to maintain a rapid rate of review all submitted manuscripts are initially reviewed by the Editor in Chief for completeness and appropriateness to the journal's stated Aims and Scope.
Readers also have quick access to our peer review policy and the organizations and standards we support.
It originally operated under an open peer review model, but adopted a single-blind peer review policy on 29 January 2010 (table 2).
BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation will adopt an open peer review policy as is currently the case on all medical titles within the BMC series [ 4].
We outline the aims and scope of the journal, introduce the publishing model and describe the open peer review policy, which fosters interaction within the research community.
We expect that the open peer review policy will follow a similar path in the near future, and some experiences show enthusiasm for the concept, such as PLoS ONE[ 3], that strongly urge reviewers to relinquish the anonymity to promote open decision-making.
There are different formats that can be chosen to deliver scientific results, depending on the target audience: reports, peer reviewed articles, policy briefs, etc., to mention only a few.
Frontiers's peer-review policy ("Free-for-all", May 4th) is to vet a paper's accuracy, but not its significance.
Where the game will end is anybody's guess.Correction: This article has been amended to clarify the relationship between NPG and Frontiers, and the details of Frontiers's peer-review policy.
"Our reports, which are peer reviewed, are subjecting climate change policies to dispassionate analysis based on hard evidence and economic rigour…..Corrections are published if and when errors are discovered," he added.
Dr. von Storch, who was not involved in overseeing the paper, resigned last week, saying he disagreed with the peer-review policies.
