Science Open Reviewed

Connecting authors with reviewers for journals

In a nutshell

Science Open Reviewed is an online community of researchers in the natural sciences, health sciences, and social sciences using a unique model for promoting:

efficient and accountable author-directed open (non-blind) peer review; effective reviewer participation incentives and reputation metrics; and rapid dissemination of discovery and commentary.

SciOR is free to everyone because it is not operated by a profit-driven commercial enterprise, nor by a traditional paywall-based journal — but by front-line researchers, using a novel library-based scholarly communication system, sponsored by a leading university research institution.

Goals and intentions

The mission of SciOR is to promote the progress of science as a mission for discovery, rather than a mission for elitism. Specifically, SciOR provides support for extension and refinement of mechanisms and opportunities for:

(1) increasing reviewer incentive and reputation rewards, and thus increasing the pool of available and willing reviewers; and

(2) promoting transparent and accountable open peer-review, and thus limiting the incidence of biased and poor quality reviews often associated with blind reviewing.

Project status

Active

Types of outputs

Review process

Review requested by

Authors
Reviewer selected by

Editor, service, or community, Authors
Public interaction

No
Author response

Yes
Decision

Binary decision

Review policy

Review coverage

Complete paper
Reviewer identity known to

Public
Competing interests

Checked

Review features

Manuscript hosting

No
Eligible reviewers/editors

Authors invite reviewers or respond to potential reviewers who have contacted the author. Reviewers are eligible if they hold a PhD, or are registered in a PhD program at an accredited institution
Tags or badges

No
Criteria for inclusion

Authors submit their reviewed paper to the journal of their choice, together with the reviews, and the identification of the reviewers.

Transparency

Open identities

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