The gold standard of safe-guarding the quality of published science is peer review.
However, this long-standing system has not evolved in today's digital world, where there has …

Pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences embrace a series of different disciplines. Pharmacy
practice has been defined as “the scientific discipline that studies the different aspects of the …

Peer reviewers are considered gatekeepers in academic writing who play a pivotal and
essential role during the publication process. Excellent manuscripts invariably need …

Background Scholarly publishing system relies on external peer review. However, the
duration of publication process is a major concern for authors and funding bodies. Objective …

Although publication in scholarly peer‐reviewed journals remains the gold standard for
communication of findings in the life sciences, the gold has been debased in the digital age …

1 Disciplines are shaped by and in turn help to shape human behavior [1]. Several models
developed over the past 50 years attempted to classify disciplines objectively. For instance …

The exponential increase in the number of submissions, further accelerated by generative
AI, and the decline in the availability of experts are burdening the peer review process. This …

Pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences embrace a series of different disciplines. Pharmacy
practice has been defined as “the scientific discipline that studies the different aspects of the …

Objective We assessed the extent of lag times in the publication and indexing of network
meta-analyses (NMAs). Study design This was a survey of published NMAs on drug …

Scholarly publishing is in a crisis, with the many stakeholders complaining about different
aspects of the system. Authors want fast publication times, high visibility and publications in …