You and your fellow Editors across all ISI journals help us develop our ISI reviewers. You do this by rating the quality of each review (Figures 6, 7 and 8). When you do, you also provide the reviewer with brief feedback about their review that the system emails to the reviewer. The rating you provide makes it possible for us to identify reviewers whose work needs improving and those whose work needs commendation. Our goal is to help all reviewers to develop their skills and to identify excellent reviewers for acknowledgment and eventual promotion to associate editor or editor. We rely on you and your fellow editors to provide us with quality feedback about reviewer performance.

Almost all reviews earn a ‘3’, exceptionally good reviews earn a ‘4’ or ‘5’ and those found lacking earn a ‘2’ or ‘1’. This rating is used by all ISI journals to identify which reviewers can use more training and which to commend for their excellence and possibly promote. As you rate each review, you will provide the reviewer with brief feedback on the quality of the review and possibly how future reviews can be more suitable.

Figure 10. Reading and rating reviews – you can view any single review by clicking the date in blue or select all reviews from the bottom of this Peer Review tab

Figure 11. To read an individual review, click the date; to rate the review, click RATE; select and instert the template STEP 2 or 2.5 Provide Mentoring Feedback . After inserting the wording, modify it to fit with what was good about the review and how to make future reviews even better.



Figure 12. Rate each review and provide the reviewer with personal mentoring