title: Rewarding peer reviewers: maintaining the integrity of science communication.
abstract: This article overviews currently available options for rewarding peer reviewers. Rewards and incentives may help maintain the quality and integrity of scholarly publications. Publishers around the world implemented a variety of financial and nonfinancial mechanisms for incentivizing their best reviewers. None of these is proved effective on its own. A strategy of combined rewards and credits for the reviewers1 creative contributions seems a workable solution. Opening access to reviews and assigning publication credits to the best reviews is one of the latest achievements of digitization. Reviews, posted on academic networking platforms, such as Publons, add to the transparency of the whole system of peer review. Reviewer credits, properly counted and displayed on individual digital profiles, help distinguish the best contributors, invite them to review and offer responsible editorial posts.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Rheumatology and Research & Development, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust (Teaching Trust of University of Birmingham, UK), Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, West Midlands, UK.
authors.forename: Armen Yuri
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-8749-6018
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Gasparyan
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics and Econometrics, Stavropol State Agrarian University, Stavropol, Russian Federation.
authors.forename: Alexey N
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-1244-4755
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Gerasimov
authors.affiliation: Department of Marketing and Trade Deals, Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russian Federation.
authors.forename: Alexander A
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-8505-7345
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Voronov
authors.affiliation: Departments of Rheumatology and Research & Development, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust (Teaching Trust of University of Birmingham, UK), Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, West Midlands, UK. ; Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: George D
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-0828-6176
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Kitas
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D018588:Fee-for-Service Plans; D006801:Humans; D017712:Peer Review, Research; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing; D012201:Reward; D012586:Science
keywords: Open Access; Peer Review; Periodicals as Topic; Publication Ethics; Rewards; Science Communication
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