School of Information, Journalism and Communication

How to speed up peer review - research co-led by Prof Stephen Pinfield featured in Nature and Science

The experimental ‘Distributed Peer Review’ system more than doubles the speed of reviewing grant applications, and has been featured in the two journals’ news sections after being presented at the MetaScience 2025 conference.

Prof Mike Thelwall wins grant to use large language models to predict reviewer scores for grant proposals

Professor Thelwall will lead the UKRI Metascience Sandpit grant to assess whether it is reasonable to give large language models any role in the peer review of grant proposals.

Dr Susan Oman and Dr Irini Katsirea appointed members of the DCMS College of Experts

Dr Susan Oman and Dr Irini Katsirea have been appointed members of the UK Government’s Department of Culture Media & Sport (DCMS) College of Experts to apply innovative scientific methods to support government policy.