Our Mission
The aim of the SciRev.org website (henceforth "Website") is to help improve scientific knowledge production. To this end, the Website enables researchers to share their experiences with the scientific review process and to select suitable and efficient journals for submitting their work. It also provides information on journal popularity through the Journal Popularity Score (JPS), which reflects researchers' interest in journals as potential publication outlets. Editors of journals get the opportunity to compare the performance of their journal with that of other journals in their field and to provide information about their journal to the research community.
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The terms "we", "us", "our" and "SciRev" in this document and elsewhere on the Website refer to Stichting SciRev, a nonprofit organization (charity) which owns and operates the Website. By using the Website in any manner, you declare to agree with and be bound by these Terms and Conditions. You also declare that any information you submit to the Website by registering an account, filling in a questionnaire, or in other ways is accurate and truthful.
To fulfil its aim, SciRev relies on information submitted by researchers, editors and other users to the Website. SciRev has no obligation to monitor the content provided by these users. However, SciRev reserves the right to remove, edit or modify any content in its sole discretion, and to remove or block any user account from the Website without prior notice. In case of doubt about the trustworthiness of submitted content, in case of content that is potentially offensive, harmful, inaccurate, deceptive or otherwise inappropriate we grant ourselves the right to refuse the use of this content without further notification or explanation. In exceptional cases, we may seek email contact with users to get additional information.
The SciRev peer review ratings presented at the Website are completely based on the information provided by registered researchers, who share their review experience by completing our questionnaire. The ratings are derived by performing simple arithmetic operations, like taking averages, on this information. The Journal Popularity Score (JPS) and Discipline Popularity Score (DPS) are based on visits to journal pages on the Website. The motivations given by the registered researchers for their overall rating of the review process are the sole responsibility of those researchers. The journal information presented by registered representatives of journals on the journal pages is entirely their responsibility.
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Effective date: 27 October 2026