The majority of our authors are opting in to publish reviewer reports of their papers In our view, crucial to the success of transparent peer review is the rate at which authors are opting in to the ...

What is transparent peer review? All primary research papers published in Nature Communications that are submitted from November 1 st, 2022 will have a corresponding peer review file containing the ...

Traditionally, scientific publishing happened behind the scenes, with only the final product of a new scientific article shared with the research community at the end of the process. The efforts of ...