Peer review articles within Nature Geoscience

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• Editorial | 11 July 2023

  All aboard the transfer train

  One journal’s reject may be another journal’s gem. Our editors aim to direct rejected manuscripts towards a more suitable destination journal in our transfer network.

• Editorial | 12 January 2023

  15 years and a pandemic

  This month marks the 15-year anniversary of Nature Geoscience, a milestone reached after weathering three years of pandemic-related global disruption. We reflect on the burden on peer review over this period and the resilience of the geoscience community.

• Editorial | 05 May 2020

  From our homes to yours

  The ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic highlights the very human effort that is peer review. We will continue to do all we can to keep the papers flowing and thank our reviewers and authors for their help and understanding under these difficult circumstances.

• Editorial | 30 August 2019

  Quality and equality in review

  Scrutiny from every angle, by a diverse set of reviewers, improves the peer review process and the papers that we publish.

• Editorial | 31 August 2018

  Celebrate and support peer reviewers

  As Peer Review Week approaches, Nature Geoscience takes the opportunity to thank its peer reviewers and contemplate how their vital work can be better supported.

• Editorial | 28 February 2018

  ArXives of Earth science

  Preprint servers afford a platform for sharing research before peer review. We are pleased that two dedicated preprint servers have opened for the Earth sciences and welcome submissions that have been posted there first.

• Editorial | 05 September 2017

  Skewed demographics

  Scientists based in North America and men are overrepresented in our authors' reviewer suggestions.

• Editorial | 31 March 2016

  Inside the black box

  The review process is at the heart of scientific publishing. We would like to share with our readers some of the considerations that go into finding the best possible set of referees for each paper.

• Editorial | 30 January 2014

  The paper trail

  What happens to manuscripts after they are submitted to our online manuscript tracking system is a source of much speculation. To learn how we decide what is published in Nature Geoscience, read on.

• Editorial | 23 December 2013

  Peer-review variations

  In our trial of a double-blind procedure for peer review, authors' awareness of their peer-review choices in the early stages of writing a paper is key for their decision to opt in or out.

• Editorial | 30 May 2013

  Double-blind peer review

  Allowing authors of research papers to be anonymous to referees has long been recommended. We will offer such an option, as a trial, from 10 June 2013.