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Coming up in Issue 3, November 2009:

Debating Peer Review
More than 4,000 reviewers respond to major survey

• 90% review because they believe they are playing an active role in the community
• 91% say that their last paper was improved through peer review. Just 15% felt that ‘formal’ peer review could be replaced by usage statistics

Reviewing the Review Process
Editors understand that attracting and retaining the best reviewers is based, in part, on how reviewers feel about the experience. But what do reviewers want and expect, and how do they really feel about reviewing? We ask Adrian Mulligan, Associate Director of Research & Academic Relations, and Laura Hassink, VP Strategy and Journal Services, about Elsevier's Reviewer Feedback Program.

Helping Reviewers Manage their Workload
Find out how Elsevier is working towards streamlining the reviewer selection process, protecting and enhancing the peer review process and continuing to recognise the valuable work done by reviewers.

How can Scopus help the peer review process?
Read more about the ways in which Scopus can help with the review process now that it is integrated in to EES, our online submission and peer review system.