They run automatically, in this order, the moment you describe your paper. You see how many are left, with their fees, before you pay anything. Names stay hidden.
They publish or practise in your exact subject. Expertise comes first, availability second.
The review must be written in the language you chose. A review is only useful if you can read it fully, so this is a hard filter.
From outside your institution, your ORCID co-authors and your email domain.
Only reviewers inside the monthly limit they set themselves, and up to date on deadlines, are offered work.
Each reviewer sets one fee for everyone, shown on their card. It is frozen the moment they accept your paper, so it stays fixed once work starts.
Payment is released when the report is delivered, and it is the same whether the review is glowing or critical. Every verdict is independent of payment.
The report goes to the author who commissioned it. The reviewer stays anonymous to the author; a journal sees their name only if the author attaches the review. The reviewer’s profile shows a count and on-time rate.
CitePep is an independent review service. The review is advice to you before submission. You can attach it to a submission, and only that journal sees it and who wrote it.
Every figure comes from reviews delivered through CitePep. Profiles show how reliably the reviewer delivers; what each review said stays private.
Reviews delivered through CitePep. More means more practice with the structured format, but a newer reviewer with a strong on-time record is a safe choice too.
The share delivered by the agreed deadline. It drops if a review is late and stays permanent. Above 95% is excellent.
Typical days from accepting to delivering, across recent reviews. The deadline itself is 7 days unless agreed otherwise.
Set by the reviewer, the same for every author, and frozen when they accept. You pay from that moment.
They have a free slot this month within the limit they set. At capacity, they’re invited again next month.
What they review and the languages they can write a review in. Both are hard filters when you are matched.
You choose among anonymous matches by field, record and fee. Their identity stays hidden from you before, during and after the review, so every verdict stays independent.
Reviews are private to the authors who commissioned them. Profiles show only how many were completed and how reliably ; papers and journals stay private.
Each reviewer sets one fee for everyone, shown up front. That keeps the price the same whatever the author can afford to offer.
Tell us if you still need a match: we recruit reviewers in fields where authors are waiting.