Honoring Our Peer Reviewers and the Role of Artificial Intelligence
Summary: An editorial in *Advances in Skin & Wound Care* (September 2025) by **Elizabeth A. Ayello, PhD, MS, RN, CWON, MAPWCA** and **R. Gary Sibbald, MD, Med (Derm), MAPWCA, JM** reflects on the importance of peer review in maintaining the quality of wound care science. The piece also discusses the evolving role of artificial intelligence (AI) in scholarly evaluation, especially as peer review practices adapt in the AI era.
Key Highlights:
- The journal’s reviewers are volunteers whose identities are blinded to authors and manuscript details, preserving impartiality.
- AI is increasingly considered a support tool for reviews—but with ethical questions about transparency, fairness, and maintaining human oversight.
- This issue coincides with Peer Review Week (Sept 15-19, 2025) and the theme “Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era.”
- The editorial thanks a long list of peer reviewers worldwide and encourages others to contribute as they expand the reviewer pool.
Read the full editorial in *Advances in Skin & Wound Care*
Keywords:
peer reviewers,
artificial intelligence,
editorial,
Elizabeth Ayello,
R. Gary Sibbald,
Peer Review Week