Peer Review Week

Peer Review Week is an annual scholarly communication event celebrating the value of peer review. It takes place globally during the September in a multitude of locations both on- and offline. Typical activities include blogs, webinars, video and social media. Since 2016, each week has been themed, with the most recent focussing on "Identity in Peer Review".^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Over 35 organizations now participate in the planning of the week, including scholarly societies, university libraries, publishers, vendors, funders and more.

Peer Review Week
Significance	Celebrates the importance of peer review
Begins	2016
Date	25-29 September
Frequency	Annual

History

Peer Review Week was founded in 2015. Founding organisations included ORCID, ScienceOpen, Sense about Science and Wiley (publisher).^[6][7][8]

Theme

• In 2023, the theme is “Peer Review and The Future of Publishing”^[9]
• In 2022, the theme was "Research Integrity: Creating and supporting trust in research"^[10]
• In 2021, the theme was "Identity in Peer Review"^[11]
• In 2020, the theme was “Trust in Peer Review”^[12]
• In 2019, the theme was “Quality in Peer Review”^[13]
• In 2018, the theme was “Diversity in Peer Review”^[14]
• In 2017, the theme was “Transparency in Peer Review”^[15]
• In 2016, the theme was “Recognizing Peer Review”^[16]