Systems and methods for facilitating the peer review process

A peer review method comprising;

• providing a user interface capable of receiving user information, wherein said user information includes identification information,
• providing a peer review application operably linked to said user interface, wherein said peer review application comprises knowledge base information and defined rules for (a) accepting a paper, (b) assigning said paper to reviewers for review, (c) providing to said reviewers criteria for reviewing each said paper to produce a peer review result, (d) processing all peer review results for any paper to produce a peer review report;
• providing a computer system having stored therein said peer review application, wherein said computer system comprises computer memory and a computer processor,
• providing a hosted electronic environment operably linked to said computer system for displaying said user interface;
• receiving said user information by way of said user interface;
• and
• processing said user information with said peer review application to generate results comprising a peer review report.

A system for reviewing papers, comprising;

• a user interface for identifying the user, for accepting predefined user information, for uploading papers to be reviewed, and for providing a result;
• an originality checking application operably linked to said user interface, said originality checking application comprising knowledge base information and defined rules for checking uploaded papers for plagiarism;
• a peer review application operably linked to said user interface, said peer review application comprising knowledge base information and defined rules for reviewing uploaded papers and for completing and submitting a review of said uploaded papers;
• and,
• a computer system having stored therein said originality checking application and said peer review application, wherein said computer system comprises computer memory and a computer processor.