A short survey on peer review
If you review for journals, we would like to know how it works for you: how much you review, what makes you say yes or no, and what you think would make peer review better. No sign-in is needed.
About this survey
Run by Peerclave (Strata Collective Ltd) with academic collaborators at the University of Glasgow. Peerclave provides paid peer review to medical journals, so it has a commercial interest, and says so wherever it publishes. Your answers are anonymous, with no name, email or account. Taking part is voluntary, you must be 18 or over, and the results will be published.
Who is asking. The survey is run by Peerclave, operated by Strata Collective Ltd (registered in Scotland, SC883929), together with academic collaborators at the University of Glasgow who are helping to design and analyse it. Peerclave is a company that provides paid peer review to medical journals, so we have a commercial interest in how peer review works, and we say so wherever we publish the results.
What we collect. Your answers, and nothing that identifies you: no name, no email, no account. If you choose to give your gender, role, career stage, field and country, we keep them only to describe who answered, and we never publish a group of fewer than 10 people.
What we will do with it. We will publish the results as totals, with the number of responses and the limits of the sample stated, on peerclave.com and in reports, and we may submit them to academic journals and conferences. We may share them with journals, societies and the press. We may share an anonymised copy of the individual answers with researchers or in a public data repository: free-text comments would be removed, and countries grouped into regions where needed. We may quote short comments, with anything that could identify someone removed. Nothing is sold.
Your choices. Taking part is voluntary, you may skip any question except the first, and you must be 18 or over. You will be asked to tick a box to confirm you have read this and agree to take part. Because answers are anonymous, we cannot find yours afterwards, so they cannot be withdrawn once sent. If you leave the page before sending, nothing is stored.
Your email, if you give it. The last section is optional. An email address is stored on its own, never joined to your answers, and used only for what you tick. To have it deleted, write to contact@peerclave.com.