Celebrating and cultivating excellent peer review at JBC

Lila M Gierasch

doi:10.1074/jbc.e119.010822

Abstract

Celebrating and cultivating excellent peer review at JBC

Highlights

We are not the only ones who are grateful to peer reviewers; thanks to the yearly “Peer Review Week,” occurring this year from September 16 to 20, the entire scientific community gets to celebrate these contributions together (1)
Establishment of an ECR Board has several goals: 1) to more deeply engage ECRs in all aspects of the science publishing process, beyond their primary experience as authors and readers; 2) to provide mentoring opportunities for early career investigators in the critical assessment of others’ data quality and interpretation; 3) to familiarize early career investigators with the expectations and norms of peer review; 4) to nurture the guardians of science in years to come; and 5) to learn from those who are still close to the bench about their views on evolving scientific standards and the future of scientific research
The ECR Board appointments and policies will be coordinated by the ECR Committee of the JBC Associate Editor Board, with George DeMartino as Chair

Summary

Introduction

We are not the only ones who are grateful to peer reviewers; thanks to the yearly “Peer Review Week,” occurring this year from September 16 to 20, the entire scientific community gets to celebrate these contributions together (1). In March, we told you that we were piloting an early career reviewer system (2), and we are absolutely delighted to officially announce the launch of JBC’s Early Career Reviewer (ECR) Board, including postdoctoral researchers and early career independent scientists.

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