Public Health Reports has greatly increased the speed with which manuscripts go through the review process. We sometimes send decisions about publication to authors in as little as a month. More commonly, authors receive a response after review in eight weeks. Of course there are glaring exceptions and we are trying to do better. Each reviewer is queried for willingness to review by e-mail, fax...

External review is a fundamental component of Global Environmental Assessments, ensuring their processes are comprehensive, objective, open and transparent, perceived as such. Here, we focus on Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports. The process has received little scrutiny, although comments author responses public. Here analyse documents from the Fourth Fifth focusin...