To ensure a fair, efficient, and high-standard peer review process, all journals under Open Exploration adopt the ARES review system—a centralized platform that streamlines reviewer management across the portfolio. This shared system enables optimal allocation of reviewer resources, standardizes quality control, and helps safeguard academic fairness.
Recognizing the invaluable contributions of reviewers in maintaining journal quality, Open Exploration continuously seeks capable and dedicated scholars to join its reviewer community. Interested experts are warmly invited to register on the ARES platform and contribute to our journals through a more streamlined and user-friendly review process.
The ARES review system brings together a global network of engaged academic researchers committed to advancing scholarly publishing. Reviewers using the ARES system can set their availability and subject-area preferences, define review timelines, manage reviewed articles, communicate instantly with editors, check the final decisions on reviewed articles, and access the final review reports—including other reviewers’ comments, review quality evaluations, and review efficiency reports.
Its unique advantages lie in:
★ All-in-One Review Process
★ Searching Reviewers: System Recommendation and Editor's Invitation
★ Self-Defined Review Schedule
★ Points Reward Mechanism
★ Register Verification, Scoring Mechanism, and Disciplinary Measures provide guarantee for the quality control of the system
Who Can Register on ARES Review System
Anyone who meets the following requirements is welcome to register.
★ hold an MD or PhD degree;
★ have published articles in peer-reviewed journals;
★ possess considerable expertise in your research field;
★ have a strong sense of responsibility considering time and effort the review takes.
How to Become a Reviewer on ARES Review System
1. Fill in personal information, research areas, publications, research projects, editorial board memberships, define review status and review schedule to complete registration via the registration entry https://www.aressystem.com/Index/BecomeReviewer.
2. Once registered, the system verifies the registered information and approves or disapproves the registered user as a reviewer. ARES system will only accept successfully registered and information verified users as qualified reviewers. Qualified reviewers should be scholars who have published peer-reviewed scientific articles in established international journals as the first or corresponding author.
What Benefits Can You Get from Reviewing
★ you can keep up to date on developments in the field through the review work;
★ you can enhance your expertise in the field and expand your knowledge;
★ you can add review records to enrich your Publons profile, and the records will be verified by the journal;
★ you will be recognized in the annual reviewer acknowledgment;
★ you will be awarded the Reviewer Recognition Certificate once the manuscript has received a final decision, and you can download the certificate yourself;
★ you will get a chance to join the journal editorial board for your outstanding review work;
★ you will receive individual points on the ARES review system, which can be freely redeemed for cash;
★ you will be granted a 20% APC discount after undertaking the review of manuscripts, which applies to all Open Exploration journals.
We would also appreciate it if you could recommend any friends or coworkers who would enjoy serving as reviewers. For any questions regarding the ARES review system, please contact us at cooperation@aressystem.com. To learn more about the journal’s peer review process, please refer to our Peer Review Guidelines.
