What is collaborative peer review? How does it work? Who is involved in this type of peer review? This flowchart will give you some quick insights into how collaborative peer review operates.
This is an excerpt from a document prepared by Editage under contract with SciELO aiming to support the elaboration of SciELO guide on types of peer review.
Collaborative peer review is very different from the single- or double-blind peer review processes. In collaborative peer review, the authors and the peer reviewers can interact with each other directly. This process usually occurs on a platform provided by the journal where the authors and reviewers can discuss how a particualr paper can be improved.
This flowchart outlines how the collaborative peer review process works. Feel free to download a PDF version of the flowchart and use it as a handy reference.
