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A Collaborative Framework Toward a Transparent and Structured Pre-submission Peer Review Process in Scientific Publishing

  • Ayad Palani1
  • Asli Metin Mahmutoğlu2
  • Taymour Mostafa3
  • Keerti Singh4
  • Hiva Alipour5
  • Germar-Michael Pinggera6
  • Walter D. Cardona Maya7
  • Mohamed Arafa8
  • Erman Ceyhan9
  • Tan V. Le10
  • Damayanthi Durairajanayagam11
  • Mohammed Abdulgabbar Noman12
5 more authors
  • Ramadan Saleh13
  • Rupin Shah14
  • Ates Kadioglu15
  • Rossella Cannarella16
  • Ashok Agarwal17
17 affiliations
  1. 1Global Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA ; Department of Basic Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Garmian, Kalar, Iraq ; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Zanko Central Laboratory, Kalar, Iraq
  2. 2Global Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA ; Department of Medical Biology, Yozgat Bozok University Faculty of Medicine, Yozgat, Türkiye
  3. 3Global Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA ; Department of Andrology, Sexology and STIs, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
  4. 4Global Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA ; Department of Preclinical and Health Sciences, The University of the West Indies Faculty of Medicine, Cave Hill Campus, Bridgetown, Barbados
  5. 5Global Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA ; Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
  6. 6Global Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA ; Department of Urology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
  7. 7Global Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA ; Reproduction Group, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Antioquia Faculty of Medicine, Medellín, Colombia
  8. 8Global Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA ; Department of Andrology, Sexology and STIs, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt ; Department of Urology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar ; Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medicine- Qatar, Doha, Qatar
  9. 9Global Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA ; Department of Urology, Başkent University, Ankara, Türkiye
  10. 10Global Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA ; Science Research and Training Department, Binh Dan Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam ; Department of General Surgery, Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  11. 11Global Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA ; Department of Physiology, Universiti Teknologi MARA Faculty of Medicine, Selangor, Malaysia
  12. 12Global Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA ; Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Sana’a University, Sana’a, Yemen
  13. 13Global Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA ; Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Andrology, Sohag University Faculty of Medicine, Sohag, Egypt ; Ajyal IVF Center, Ajyal Hospital, Sohag, Egypt
  14. 14Global Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA ; Department of Urology, Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, India
  15. 15Global Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA ; Department of Urology, İstanbul School of Medicine, İstanbul University, İstanbul, Türkiye
  16. 16Global Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA ; Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
  17. 17Global Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA ; Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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Abstract

Scientific publishing plays a central role in advancing science by disseminating knowledge and sharing new findings among researchers. In recent decades, the development of the World Wide Web has profoundly transformed the scientific publishing system and reshaped the scholarly communication landscape. This transformation has led to an exponential increase in published articles. A search of articles and reviews indexed in the Scopus database using the search terms “DOCTYPE (ar) OR DOCTYPE (re)” shows an increase from 3488 publications in 1868 to more than 3.5 million articles in 2025. This rapid expansion has been associated with structural shifts in research dissemination, particularly the proliferation of new publishing channels, including online journals, open access (OA) models, conference proceedings, and journal “special issues,” collectively contributing to increased publication output. Importantly, OA models play a crucial role in making innovative research more accessible, diverse, and widely disseminated.

Cite this article as: Palani A, Metin Mahmutoglu A, Mostafa T, et al. A collaborative framework toward a transparent and structured pre-submission peer review process in scientific publishing. Urol Res Pract. 2026;52, doi:10.5152/tud.2026.26059

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@article{palani2026collaborative,
  title = {{A Collaborative Framework Toward a Transparent and Structured Pre-submission Peer Review Process in Scientific Publishing}},
  author = {Ayad Palani and Asli Metin Mahmutoğlu and Taymour Mostafa and Keerti Singh and Hiva Alipour and Germar-Michael Pinggera and Walter D. Cardona Maya and Mohamed Arafa and Erman Ceyhan and Tan V. Le and Damayanthi Durairajanayagam and Mohammed Abdulgabbar Noman and Ramadan Saleh and Rupin Shah and Ates Kadioglu and Rossella Cannarella and Ashok Agarwal},
  journal = {Urology Research and Practice},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.5152/tud.2026.26059},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5152/tud.2026.26059},
  note = {CC BY},
}
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TY  - JOUR
TI  - A Collaborative Framework Toward a Transparent and Structured Pre-submission Peer Review Process in Scientific Publishing
AU  - Ayad Palani
AU  - Asli Metin Mahmutoğlu
AU  - Taymour Mostafa
AU  - Keerti Singh
AU  - Hiva Alipour
AU  - Germar-Michael Pinggera
AU  - Walter D. Cardona Maya
AU  - Mohamed Arafa
AU  - Erman Ceyhan
AU  - Tan V. Le
AU  - Damayanthi Durairajanayagam
AU  - Mohammed Abdulgabbar Noman
AU  - Ramadan Saleh
AU  - Rupin Shah
AU  - Ates Kadioglu
AU  - Rossella Cannarella
AU  - Ashok Agarwal
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/23
JO  - Urology Research and Practice
DO  - 10.5152/tud.2026.26059
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5152/tud.2026.26059
AB  - Scientific publishing plays a central role in advancing science by disseminating knowledge and sharing new findings among researchers. In recent decades, the development of the World Wide Web has profoundly transformed the scientific publishing system and reshaped the scholarly communication landscape. This transformation has led to an exponential increase in published articles. A search of articles and reviews indexed in the Scopus database using the search terms “DOCTYPE (ar) OR DOCTYPE (re)” shows an increase from 3488 publications in 1868 to more than 3.5 million articles in 2025. This rapid expansion has been associated with structural shifts in research dissemination, particularly the proliferation of new publishing channels, including online journals, open access (OA) models, conference proceedings, and journal “special issues,” collectively contributing to increased publication output. Importantly, OA models play a crucial role in making innovative research more accessible, diverse, and widely disseminated.  Cite this article as: Palani A, Metin Mahmutoglu A, Mostafa T, et al. A collaborative framework toward a transparent and structured pre-submission peer review process in scientific publishing. Urol Res Pract. 2026;52, doi:10.5152/tud.2026.26059
SN  - 2980-1478
ER  -