Portable peer review allows authors to save time by avoiding unnecessary rounds of peer review and minimizes the time that reviewers must dedicate to a given manuscript. If the Communications ...

Peer review can be stressful ... But editors are also strapped for time and you can’t necessarily expect that level of feedback, so you need to monitor your own delivery, too.

To save time for authors and peer-reviewers, only those papers that seem most likely to meet our editorial criteria are sent for formal review. Those papers judged by the editors to be of ...