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Glossary of terms

Definitions of the terms used in CitePep’s records, profiles, standards and policies. Where a policy and this glossary differ, the policy applies.

Terms defined31
Last revised1 September 2026
Maintained byEditorial standards team
CategoriesRecord (9)Role (3)Review (6)Policy (2)Reputation (5)Payment (1)Community (5)
Acceptedrecord
A contribution the publisher has approved. Only accepted work appears on a page record or a profile.
Defined inEditorial standards§1.1
Attribution blockrecord
The element on a publisher’s page that names who wrote, reviewed and corrected it, each name linked to a public profile.
Authorrole
On a page: the person credited with writing it. In pre-submission review: the researcher who commissions a review of their own manuscript.
Defined inTerms of service§1.2
Claimreview
A factual statement on a page, a figure, date, quote, definition or cause-and-effect statement, that can be tested against a source. Opinions are left out.
See also: Source, Correction
Claiming a pagerecord
A request to be credited as author of a page you wrote. Recorded only after the publisher confirms it.
See also: Author, Accepted
Communitycommunity
A topic-based space where verified members ask, check and fix published information together. Each community has its own moderators and may add rules to the site-wide guidelines.
Conflict of interestpolicy
Any relationship that could reasonably affect judgement of a page or manuscript. Some conflicts are excluded automatically; all others must be declared before work begins.
See also: Matching, Reviewer
Contribution scorereputation
A cumulative measure of accepted work, weighted by role. It increases only when a publisher accepts a contribution.
See also: Trust score, Level
Defined inReputation method§2
Correctionrecord
A proposed change to a published page, stating the exact current text, the exact replacement, the reason and a source.
Defined inEditorial standards§2
Correction logrecord
The public, append-only list of accepted corrections on a page, each with the previous text, the new text and the date.
Defined inEditorial standards§2.4
Declinedrecord
Work the publisher chose not to accept. Retained privately for integrity purposes.
See also: Accepted
Defined inEditorial standards§1.3
Fee freezepayment
The point at which a reviewer’s fee becomes fixed: the moment they accept a review. It stays fixed from then on.
Findingreview
A single point in a pre-submission review: the quoted passage, the issue a referee would raise, and what would address it. Graded major, minor or note.
See also: Grade
Defined inAuthor guides§3.1
Gradereview
The severity assigned to a finding. Major: likely to affect the editorial outcome. Minor: should be fixed. Note: a suggestion.
See also: Finding
Defined inReviewer handbook§3.2
Helpful votecommunity
A member’s signal that a post or answer was useful. Votes decide what is shown first; reputation comes from accepted work.
Levelreputation
One of four public tiers, Contributor, Trusted, Verified, Expert, determined by accepted contributions and acceptance rate.
Defined inReputation method§4
Matchingreview
The selection of reviewers for a manuscript by field, review language, absence of conflict of interest, and available capacity.
On-time ratereputation
The proportion of a reviewer’s completed reviews delivered by the agreed deadline. One of two public facts about a reviewer’s reviews.
See also: Reviewer
Defined inReviewer handbook§4.3
Open problemcommunity
A thread flagging a claim on a published page that may be wrong. Members investigate, and an agreed fix can become a correction.
Open requestrecord
A page a publisher has posted for a qualified specialist to review, correct or source.
Defined inOpen requests
Page recordrecord
The public history of a single page: every credited contributor, their role, and each accepted change with its date and source.
Pre-submission reviewreview
A confidential expert review of a manuscript, commissioned by its author before submission to a journal. Separate from journal peer review.
See also: Finding, Matching
Publisherrole
The owner of a verified site, and the only party who can accept or decline contributions to its pages.
Defined inTerms of service§3
Resolvedcommunity
A thread whose question experts in the topic agree has been answered. A short community answer is shown at the top.
Reviewerrole
A verified researcher who writes pre-submission reviews, sets their own fee and is paid per completed review regardless of its conclusions.
Defined inReviewer handbook§1
Sourcereview
The citable evidence supporting a claim or correction: preferably the original study, dataset or official publication.
See also: Claim, Correction
Topic authorityreputation
A per-topic measure of a contributor’s accepted work, used to match them to pages and requests in that topic.
Defined inReputation method§3
Trust scorereputation
The share of a contributor’s decided work that publishers accepted. Displayed only once enough decisions exist to be meaningful.
Defined inReputation method§2
Verified siterecord
A domain whose owner has demonstrated control by a meta tag or file. Required before any contribution to its pages can be accepted.
See also: Publisher
Defined inFor publishers
YMYLpolicy
“Your Money or Your Life”: content on health, finance, safety or law, where inaccuracy can cause material harm to readers.
See also: Claim, Source
Defined inYMYL content guide§1

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