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Peer review, reimagined.
Your expertise, rewarded.

Our mission is to redefine the peer-review process. By combining ScienceNet's technological toolset with fair financial compensation, we encourage a new generation of reviewers to contribute. It is a standard that should have been introduced a long time ago.

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Created by reviewers to fix scientific publishing.

§ 01The Standard

The current standard

You know it very well: an inbox full of invitations, a sense of duty to academia, and the need to stay up to date. You perform peer-review for the community, but the question remains: Why is your expertise free?

  • MDs are paid for their diagnoses.
  • Consultants charge fees for advising companies.
  • Engineers are paid for their audits.
  • Reviewers' work is currently unpaid.

We believe it is time to call it what it is: a profession. Reviewing is real work, and it deserves to be treated like a profession — not a favor. You should decide what fair compensation looks like, based on the time you dedicate. And you will be supported by proper tools and a community that make the work easier. That is why we invite you to join us.

§ 02By the numbers
2.6%¹

Of papers in 2025 had a least one potentially hallucinated citation - The escalating negative impact of AI necessitates a more rigorous challenge to the peer-review process.

— Naddaf & Quill, Nature News
90%²

Of all peer reviews are completed by just 20% of researchers. Most do it unpaid.

— Kovanis et al., PLoS One, 2016
2x³

More review invitations are refused today than 20 years ago. The goodwill is gone.

— Beecher & Wang, Account Res, 2025
§ 03The Solution

Our Solution

We are introducing commercial peer-review with a focus on quality.

Does payment lead to "lazy" reviews? We believe the opposite. By treating review as professional expert work, we implement high standards of accountability. Through our platform, you receive:

  • Fair compensation: Profit-sharing between journals and reviewers.
  • Quality over Quantity: Our system rewards depth and rigor, ensuring that financial compensation drives excellence, not rushed or superficial work.
§ 04Reviewer flow

Review in one clear flow.

Invitation, manuscript, recommendation, and outcome stay in one place.

FIG. 1
  1. 1.Review invitation

    You receive an invitation from an editor in your chosen field based on your declared preferences, including your specified fee.

  2. 2.Respond to request

    Accept when the review fits your expertise.

  3. 3.Read current manuscript version

    Read the whole manuscript, and all the files attached in one space. Review it there.

  4. 4.Submit review

    Send your recommendation using your preferred method.

  5. 5.Track outcome

    Follow a new version, acceptance, or rejection in an easy way.

  6. 6.Receive compensation for your work

    You are rewarded for each completed review, no matter if the paper was accepted for publication or rejected.

FIG 2. The reviewer flow from invitation to editorial outcome.
§ 05Join the Change

Your time is a finite resource.

Your expertise has market value. It is time to stop treating peer review as an unpaid duty and start seeing it as recognized, professional work.

Let's make peer review fair and more efficient. Join us.

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§ 06References
  1. [1]Miryam Naddaf & Elizabeth Quill Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Nature News. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00969-z ↩
  2. [2]Kovanis M., Porcher R., Ravaud P., Trinquart L. The Global Burden of Journal Peer Review in the Biomedical Literature: Strong Imbalance in the Collective Enterprise. PLoS One 11 (2016): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166387 ↩
  3. [3]Beecher K., Wang J. Peer reviewer fatigue, or peer reviewer refusal? Account Res 32 (2025): 838-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2025.2463977 ↩