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Working Group: Recognizing and Rewarding Peer Review

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Updated 23 July 2025:

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Recommendations by the CoARA Working Group on Recognizing and Rewarding Peer Review

In July 2025, the WG Recognizing and Rewarding Peer Review published a set of recommendations on how the academic community can, and should, appropriately value peer review that is integral to academic publishing, funding decisions, and research careers. The report, developed by the Working Group through an extensive consultation process with the broader CoARA community, addresses research-performing and research-funding organizations, as well as publishers and individual researchers, with adaptable recommendations on how to meaningfully recognize and incentivize quality peer review, including such mechanisms as verifiable certificates, providing protected time for peer review, developing digital infrastructures for crediting review activities (e.g. ORCID integration), and including peer review in performance reviews and job evaluations.
The Working Group also invites CoARA members to pilot the recommendations within their institutions. If you are interested in piloting the recommendations on recognizing and rewarding peer review, sign up using this form, and the co-chairs will reach out to you with more information.
Read the recommendations here.
Click here to read the publication!

WG Objectives

Research assessment needs to take into account a broad range of scholarly activities. Formal peer review plays a crucial role in research and must therefore be given appropriate recognition in assessment processes. This working group will develop systematic approaches for recognizing and rewarding peer review activities.

Efforts will be made at a number of different levels:

  1. Collecting systematic evidence on ways in which high-quality peer review activities can be
    recognized and rewarded;
  2. Using this evidence to develop principles and guidelines for recognizing and rewarding peer
    review activities;
  3. Piloting the implementation of these principles and guidelines in research performing and
    research funding organizations;
  4. Supporting the wider implementation of these principles and guidelines.

In a two-year time frame, the working group members will work on a number of outputs at the four levels mentioned above.

Affiliated organisations

  • Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development
  • cOAlition S
  • Leiden University
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Loughborough University
  • ASAPbio Global
  • CNRS France
  • DFG Germany
  • EMBO Global
  • Eötvös Loránd Research Network Hungary
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands
  • Eurodoc Europe
  • Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV) Finland
  • OPERAS Europe
  • SNSF Switzerland
  • UKRN UK
  • University of Turku Finland
  • University of Zadar Croatia
  • Vita-Salute San Raffaele University Italy

Find out more!

Contact: Johan Rooryck, Leiden University,  johan.rooryck@coalition-s.org

 

 

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