Upcoming Webinar: How to Be a Peer Reviewer for Clinical Research
Our upcoming How to Be a Peer Reviewer webinar in November will focus on how to conduct peer review of clinical research. Be sure to register here before the webinar goes live on November 6th.
This webinar is for clinical researchers interested in giving back to their field, and gaining an in-depth understanding of how peer review is conducted in clinical research. You will learn about the nuances of the whole process, from how to get set up as a reviewer, to what’s different about reviewing clinical medicine content, to vital reviewer responsibilities when considering research ethics.
Want to learn more about effective peer review? Our How to Be a Peer Reviewer webinar series focuses on starting out as an academic peer reviewer, from taking your first steps in the process to understanding what makes a good review. Check out our previous webinar recordings to learn more about the peer review process:
You can also check out our Clinical Medicine & Research podcast series to learn more about various issues and topics within the field of clinical medicine and clinical research. Click here to access the podcast database:
Peer Review Week may have just happened in late September, but you can still browse Sage’s resources and recordings from Peer Review Week 2024. This year’s theme focused on Innovation and Technology in Peer Review, specifically looking at the impact that AI is having on the current state of peer review and how to maintain ethics and responsibilities in a digital age.
Here are a few posts from this year’s Peer Review week:
Manuscripts and Metadata: Peer Review in the Digital Age
AI in Peer Review: The Positive, The Negative and Insights from the Research Integrity Team
Introducing our panelists:
Jennifer Lovick
Jennifer Lovick, PhD, is an Executive Editor in the Open Access Journals department at Sage Publishing in Thousand Oaks, California. She received her PhD in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology from UCLA in 2015 and joined Sage Publishing in 2016. Jennifer is the Executive Editor of the Gold Open Access journal Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment (IF 2.7; CiteScore 4.4) and manages a team of in-house Managing Editors who work on a broad portfolio of health and biomedical journals. Jennifer is also involved in a variety of in-house projects that focus on marketing, peer review, and research ethics.
Hemi Malkki
Hemi Malkki, PhD, is an Executive Editor based at Sage’s London office. After obtaining a MSc in neurobiology (University of Helsinki) and PhD in neuroscience (University of Amsterdam), she embarked on her publishing career at BioMed Central, where she coordinated peer review across a range of clinical and life sciences titles in the BMC series portfolio. She then worked at Nature Reviews Neurology as Senior Editor before joining Sage in 2016. Besides managing Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders, a leading gold open access journal in clinical neurology (IF 4.7, CiteScore 9.0), she oversees peer review processes and training at Sage’s Open Access Journals.
Michaela Christodoulaki
Michaela Christodoulaki obtained her PhD in Cancer Immunology from the University of Southampton, UK in 2023 and also holds a BSc from the University of Bristol, UK in Cancer Biology and Immunology. She is currently a Managing Editor in the Open Access Journals department (Journal of International Medical Research, IF 1.4 and Science Progress, IF 2.6) at Sage Publishing, based in London, UK. She is involved in editorial outreach, peer review process and decision making of medical papers.
Applonia Rose
Applonia Rose, PhD, is a Managing Editor in the Open Access Journals division at Sage Publishing, based in London, UK. She is the Deputy Editor of Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment (IF: 2.7). Her primary role is to oversee the peer review processes for the journal, while also leading initiatives in Editorial Board development and Special Collections. Applonia obtained her PhD in Biomedical Sciences from KU Leuven, Belgium.
Sean Scarisbrick
Sean Scarisbrick is a Marketing Manager on the Author Marketing team at Sage. His primary role is to provide support to authors and reviewers as they move through the publishing process, with a particular focus on providing targeted resources to provide support at the appropriate time in the publication process. He holds a BA in history from Manhattan College and a MA in history from Hunter College, and is based out of New York.