The holiday season is coming. We thank our editors, authors, reviewers, and readers for their trust and support throughout the year. Their invaluable contributions helped a lot to build our high quality open platform for the scientific community.

Happy holidays to all and look forward to working together in the coming year!

Highlights of Science
23 December 2023

The holiday season is coming. We take this opportunity to thank all of our editors, authors, and reviewers for their trust and support throughout the year. Their invaluable contributions helped a lot to build our high quality open platform for the scientific community.

Happy holidays to all and look forward to working together in the coming year!

Highlights of Science
22 December 2022

Open Peer Review makes the traditional closed review process transparent. By publishing the reviews, readers can see the concerns raised by peer reviewers, and how authors addressed them.

Publishing signed reviews also helps recognize the peer-review contributions by reviewers.

At Highlights of Science, authors have the choice to decide whether to participate in Open Peer Review process when submitting their manuscript. When they choose to do so, all the reviews and their responses to reviewers will be published alongside the paper, if it is accepted after peer review.

For manuscripts opt-in Open Peer Review, the reviews will be published with reviewers' identify protected. However, if reviewers choose to sign the reviews, their name and affiliation will appear on the reviews page.

The United Nations SDG Publishers Compact features 10 action points that publishers, publishing associations and others can commit to undertaking in order to accelerate progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Signatories aspire to develop sustainable practices and act as champions of the SDGs, publishing books and journals that will help inform, develop and inspire action in that direction.

Highlights of Science was founded as a full Open Access publisher with its first journal titled Highlights of Sustainability, aiming at promoting the world's sustainable development. By joining the SGD Publisher Compact, Highlights of Science fully supports the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

For more information about this program, please refer to SDG Publishers Compact.