Peer Review Week 2021 takes place September 20-24, with this year鈥檚 featured theme 鈥?nbsp;鈥淚dentity in Peer Review鈥?鈥?dedicated to exploring the multifaceted nature of identity, how personal and social identity affects peer review practices and experiences, and what鈥檚 needed to foster more diverse, equitable, and inclusive peer review processes.

To mark the occasion, Dr Mario Mali膷ki, Co-Editor-in-Chief ofResearch Integrity and Peer Review,shares his thoughts and questions regarding identity in peer review.Read the blog here.

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Joerg Meerpohl, Editor-in-Chief

Joerg Meerpohl is a board-qualified pediatrician and pediatric hematologist oncologist. He has been working as a researcher at the German Cochrane Centre since 2007 and was appointed deputy director in 2011 and co-director in 2015. His main research interests include systematic review methodology, transparency in research and related dissemination bias as well as reporting quality in particular. Since 2015, Joerg has been a member of the Cochrane Steering Group.

For many years Joerg has also been an active member of the GRADE working group, and has run many GRADE workshops at national and international organizations. Joerg worked as a GRADE methodology advisor with several WHO panels, the European Stroke Organization and the Robert Koch Institute in Germany amongst others. In 2013 he founded the GRADE center in Freiburg, Germany and is a member of the GRADE guidance committee.

Competing interests

Mario Mali膷ki, Editor-in-Chief

Mario Mali膷ki has obtained his MD at the University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Croatia, MA in Literature and Medicine at King鈥檚 College, London, UK, and PhD in Medical Ethics at the University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia. He has been a member of Cochrane Croatia, and of the New Frontiers of Peer Review (PEERE) EU COST Action. His main research interest is meta-science, with the focus on peer review, research integrity, authorship and transparency in reporting. His other interest includes medical ethics, hope, statistics, speculative fiction, Frank Herbert鈥檚 opus and Leonard Cohen鈥檚 poetry.

His scholarly profile can be seen at ORCiD, and his review experience at Publons.

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