Growth in research output continues to rise, with publications reaching 2.9 million articles in 2020 compared with 1.9 million in 2010. And peer reviewers, essential players in the whole process, are increasingly scarce and hard to find.
Here are three challenges, then, that research publishers can grapple. First, publisher can make the whole digital experience for research authors and peer reviewers much better. One such example is the development of Processing Platform. Second, publisher can make new research communication opportunities that are immediate and fast for research authors, while their article is in review. Third, publisher can unlock new cohorts of peer reviewers and introduce more diversity into the pool of experts by better identifying expertise.
Publishers will build on innovations like those above, will stretch what is possible, and will get inventive. For example, imagine how publishers might use a language model to invite and enable peer reviewers to review in their own language, and the impact of this on diversity and reviewer fatigue.
It is important that the development of an article processing platform is not a task of the future. Such a platform already exists and has been used by authors and reviewers for two years. We are talking about the InGraph Platform.
All works on a specific topic are displayed in the reviewer's personal cabinet and he/she chooses those that are most interesting to him/her. Moreover, it has a clear set of evaluation criteria depending on the level of scientific novelty claimed by the author, and can receive review fees if desired. That is, there is no need to look for anyone, everything is in one place.
All principles of the Platform are outlined in the monograph that is freely available
