Patent ID: 7007232

Claim:
A computer implemented method for peer review over a communications network, comprising: receiving an article from an author via a communications network; extracting context information from the article; querying a database containing profiles of potential reviewers to determine a plurality of qualified reviewers based on the extracted context information; ranking the plurality of qualified reviewers; contacting each qualified reviewer and requesting that the qualified reviewer agrees to review the article; receiving an agreement from one or more qualified reviewers; providing the article to an accepting qualified reviewer; providing an evaluation form to the accepting qualified reviewer; receiving a completed evaluation form from the accepting qualified reviewer, wherein the accepting qualified reviewer completes the evaluation form online and each accepting qualified reviewer for an article has access to completed evaluation forms of other accepting qualified reviewers after submitting an evaluation form for the same article; providing the author with the completed evaluation form; receiving a response from the author directly in the completed evaluation form; providing the completed evaluation form with author responses to an editor; receiving a publication decision from the editor; and providing the publication decision to the author and the reviewer.