Peer review
Energy Catalyst uses double anonymous peer review. Every research article is assessed by at least two independent subject experts.
The model
Energy Catalyst operates double anonymous peer review. Reviewers are not told who the authors are, and authors are not told who the reviewers are.
This is not a setting that can be switched off. Author identity is held in a separate part of the system from the manuscript, and the reviewer's copy is assembled without it, so a reviewer cannot see an author's name, affiliation or funding even by accident.
Authors must remove identifying information from the manuscript file itself before submitting. The system cannot anonymise prose that names the authors' own institution or self-cites in the first person.
What happens to a submission
1. Checks
The editorial office confirms the submission is complete, in scope, and correctly anonymised, and screens it for similarity with iThenticate. An incomplete submission is returned rather than rejected.