Search a pool of verified experts by field, method and language, and see current availability and on-time records before you invite anyone.
Not a name list. The things that decide whether someone can actually take the work.
This boundary is the point, not a limitation.
| We do | We never do |
|---|---|
| Help you find and invite reviewers | Referee for your journal |
| Show real availability and track record | Receive or influence your editorial decisions |
| Let the reviewer accept or decline | Take a fee on an accept or reject |
| Keep a paid review private to its author | Report a paid review to you as refereeing |
Paid refereeing is treated as a conflict of interest across academic publishing, and a journal seen to outsource its refereeing would risk the indexing it depends on. Keeping the two apart protects you, not us.
By field, method and language, filtered to who is available.
Contact details stay private, which is what keeps the pool listed.
They accept into your own editorial process, on your terms.
No. CitePep helps you find and invite reviewers into your own process. We never act as your referee, never receive your editorial decisions, and take no fee on them.
No. You invite through the platform and the reviewer chooses whether to respond. Exposing contact details would end the pool’s willingness to be listed.
No. Indexing is self-declared by the journal and shown as such. CitePep does not verify Scopus, PubMed or DOAJ listing and never presents it as verified.
It is new, and we will not inflate the number. Your dashboard shows exactly how many reviewers currently match your fields, so you can judge whether it is useful to you yet.
Searching the pool is free while we build it. If that changes, it will change for new accounts and we will say so plainly.
Create a journal profile and your dashboard shows exactly how many reviewers match your scope and languages.