Structured peer review for medical journals, carried out by credentialed subspecialty reviewers and paid at a fixed fee.
Peerclave is a review service for editors of academic medical journals. An approved editor submits a manuscript with a fee, a deadline, and a visibility policy. A reviewer in the relevant subspecialty accepts or declines at that fee, submits a structured review by the deadline, and is paid on submission.
How it works
A journal submits a request
The editor fixes the fee, the deadline, and how much of the manuscript a reviewer sees.
A reviewer is invited
Matched on subspecialty, and free to decline. The fee is not negotiated.
Manuscript access is granted
On acceptance, at the level of access the journal specified.
The review is submitted
Complete against the structured format, by the deadline.
Payment is released
On submission of a complete review. One revision round is included in the fee.
For editors and for reviewers
For editors
A journal sets its own fee for each request, chooses the subspecialty, decides how much of the manuscript reviewers see before accepting, and receives one round of revision review within the original fee.
Editor access requires an application and approval. Peerclave is a controlled, credentialed network rather than an open self-serve service.
For reviewers
Sign in with ORCID and your public profile is used to establish your credentials. Invitations state a fixed fee and a deadline; you accept or decline. There is no bidding and no negotiation.
Payment is tied to submitting a complete review by the deadline. It does not depend on whether the journal agrees with your conclusions.
Integrity
Reviews follow a structured format so that completeness can be verified against the format rather than judged by opinion. Where a journal and a reviewer disagree about whether a review is complete, the dispute is handled directly by Peerclave. A journal does not have unilateral control over whether a reviewer is paid.