At Springer Nature, the publisher of the Nature Research portfolio including Nature, we are celebrating this year’s Peer Review Week with a free live event at University College London open to researchers from all the London-based universities and across the UK.

Hear from Nature Research's journal editors about how to publish in, and peer review for, our journals, and participate in a discussion on transparency in peer review. Come share your views!

Agenda

3:00-3:05 Opening

3:05-3:35 Talk: How to publish in Nature Research journals.

by Luke Fleet, Senior Editor at Nature Physics

3:35-4:05 Talk: How to review for Nature Research journals.

by Alicia Newton, Senior Editor at Nature Geoscience

4:05-5:00 Panel discussion: Transparency in peer review

5:00- Networking, sponsored by Catalyst Grant from Digital Science

Panel discussion

Our panellists will approach the topic from the point of view of authors, reviewers, editors and publishers, and discuss: how transparency in peer review can be improved; what its impact is on the quality of the reviews and papers; what the ethical considerations at play are; what publishers can do to promote more transparency; and many other aspects.

Panellists are:

Carolina Herrera, Senior Post-doctoral Fellow, Imperial College London

Mete Atature, Professor, University of Cambridge

Alexia-Ileana Zaromytidou, Chief Editor, Nature Cell Biology

Andrew Cosgrove, Senior Editor, Genome Biology

Elizabeth Moylan, Senior Editor (Research Integrity), BioMed Central and SpringerOpen

Elisa De Ranieri, Head of Editorial Process and Data Analytics, Nature journals

Peer Review Week is “a global event celebrating the essential role that peer review plays in maintaining scientific quality. The event brings together individuals, institutions, and organizations committed to sharing the central message that good peer review is critical to scholarly communications.”