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You don’t have to review alone… introducing EGU’s new co-reviewing scheme for Early Career Scientists and first time reviewers

December 6, 2024
You don’t have to review alone… introducing EGU’s new co-reviewing scheme for Early Career Scientists and first time reviewers
Photo taken by Mark Sivewright

Any journal editor will recognize this challenge: a new manuscript arrives for review. It’s great, and you’re enthusiastic about getting it into the system, but suddenly, there’s a problem. All the suggested reviewers are unavailable! What do you do now? Across publishing fields, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find suitable reviewers for scientific manuscripts. As the number of submissio ...[Read More]

AI-based tools in scientific publishing: to what extent can we rely on them?

February 14, 2024
AI-based tools in scientific publishing: to what extent can we rely on them?
Image credit: Drew Hemment (imaggeo.egu.eu)

Academic publishing has considerably evolved in response to technological developments. Current discussions revolve around the rise of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools or Large Language Models (LLM). They exceed the capabilities of simple spelling and grammar checkers or translation software and their use in the publication process has several implications that need to be considered. ...[Read More]

Three peer review myths debunked by the First EGU Peer Review Training

December 29, 2023
Three peer review myths debunked by the First EGU Peer Review Training
Credit: Ole Zeising (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

In 2023, EGU offered Peer Review Training for the first time, over three virtual sessions in September and October 2023, with a little homework in between. With more than 100 applications, from which we chose 57, mostly Early Career Scientists (ECS) to fill the available places, the desire for this kind of training in the EGU community was clear. About 80% of the participants completed the trainin ...[Read More]

Learning from EGU’s first Peer Review Training: In conversation with Kifle Aregahegn

and November 15, 2023
Learning from EGU’s first Peer Review Training: In conversation with Kifle Aregahegn
Daniel Wasner (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

For the first time, EGU organized a Peer Review Training in September and October this year. It was attended by 50 participants, most of whom were early career scientists with little to no background in the peer review process. The training comprised three online sessions and an at-home exercise of reviewing real manuscripts. And of course, with feedback being key in such trainings, all participan ...[Read More]