Join us for an exploration of the intersection of peer review, innovation, and cutting-edge technology to mark Peer Review Week 2024 – the annual celebration of the important role of peer review in upholding research quality.
Join Amy Southall, Managing Editor at ACS Publications, for an introduction to peer review at ACS, as well as Jyotishman Dasgupta, Editorial Advisory Board Member for The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Sarbajit Banerjee, Senior Editor of ACS Omega, and Z. Jason Ren, Associate Editor, ES&T, ES&T Letters as they share their perspectives on the future of peer review and the evolving landscape. What will the future of the peer review process look like for the community? How can technological advancements help us drive for greater efficiency, diversity, transparency, and rigor in Peer Review? And what are the implications and potential consequences of AI-powered tools?
Register now to share your own perspectives and experiences as reviewers, authors, and researchers and connect with the chemistry community on this crucial topic. This ACS Webinar is co-produced with ACS Publications.
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What You Will Learn
- How peer review is conducted at the American Chemical Society
- How exciting technological innovations can enhance efficiency, transparency, and rigor in peer review
- How artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping scholarly communication and what challenges and opportunities it will bring
Additional Resources
- ACS Reviewer Lab - ACS Reviewer Lab provides peer review training for scientific researchers, presented in English or Chinese for free during this 1-2 hour online course.
- ACS Author Lab - ACS Author Lab helps you master the preparation and publication of scientific manuscripts for free during this one hour online course.
- Free Manuscript Language Editing - Authors submitting manuscripts to a subset of journals will have the opportunity to get free copy-editing suggestions from a scientifically-trained language model prior to submission.
- ChatGPT: A Conversational AI That Will Fundamentally Change the Way We Find Information - Open Access Environmental Science & Technology article.
- Whitesides' Group: Writing a Paper - Insights into conducting research and the writing of scientific papers are given by Prof. Whitesides in this short essay.
- Chatbots in science: What can ChatGPT do for you? - Nature article with Milton Pividori who spent a year and a half studying how best to use ChatGPT in research. Here, he highlights three key lessons.
- Is AI the Answer to Peer Review Problems, or the Problem Itself? - Article from The Scholarly Kitchen
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