Initiative
Description
The Collaborative Review Forum unites authors, reviewers and the Associate Editor – and if need be the Specialty Chief Editor – in a direct online dialogue, enabling quick iterations and facilitating consensus. Editors and reviewers work with the authors to improve their manuscript. To guarantee the most rigorous and objective reviews, the identities of reviewers remain anonymous during the review period and, when a manuscript is accepted for publication that a reviewer has endorsed, their names appear on the published article, without exceptions. Frontiers operates a single-blind peer review process, the authors will not be anonymous to the reviewers.