TY - JOUR T1 - Editorial: Transparency Must Prevail JF - eneuro JO - eNeuro DO - 10.1523/ENEURO.0300-17.2017 VL - 4 IS - 5 SP - ENEURO.0300-17.2017 AU - Christophe Bernard Y1 - 2017/09/01 UR - http://www.eneuro.org/content/4/5/ENEURO.0300-17.2017.abstract N2 - The theme of this year's Peer Review Week is transparency. During the last few decades, I believe that a lack of transparency in the review process has degraded the field of scientific publishing. Authors were frequently left confused and angry when conflicting reviews lead to a rejection or when their paper received an obscure rejection and was not reviewed at all. Some journals still use the infamous box “confidential remarks to the editor.” These practices led to a growing sense of dissatisfaction among all scientists, myself included.Fortunately, times have changed. There is now a growing number of journals that have a more transparent peer-review system, and eNeuro is proud to be among these journals. At eNeuro the decisions and the reviews are based on facts that are … ER -