SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE PEER REVIEW PROCESS OF SCHOLARLY JOURNALS

摘要

A computer-implemented method and system for providing a rating of the quality of a peer review process for an article is disclosed. A weighted peer review score is calculated from metadata of the article which includes information about the number of editors-in-chief, the number of associate editors, and the total number of reviewers that participated in the peer review of the article. The metadata also includes information about the number of revisions of the article. The peer review score is displayed next to a link to the article returned in the search results from the search engine. The peer review score indicates the relative thoroughness of the peer review process that the article underwent. The peer review score is included with a link to the article when the article appears in a search engine search results.