5th CIM/CINet Reviewing Seminar

Reviewing Scientific Articles

Reviewing scientific articles is one of the most important activities for all scholars. You support your peers in developing better publications and, through that, help your scientific community make progress. You help yourself become a better author, by reviewing others’ papers and receiving reviews of your own work.

Reviewing is something that must and can be learned. Creativity and Innovation Management (CIM) and the Continuous Innovation Network (CINet) have taken the initiative to develop a reviewing seminar to help young academics make the first step in their reviewing career.

Program

The seminar is organized as a three-session workshop as follows:

Session 1 – Kick-off – good reviewing practices

• Introduction by one of the CIM editors  
• Good reviewing practices by three excellent reviewers:
  • Michela Beretta, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Johan Frishammar (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
    
  • Luisa Pellegrini, University of Pisa, Italy
• Assignment: each participants gets to review one "old" submission from the faculty to CIM or another innovation management journal.

Session 2 – Reviewing scientific papers

• Review presentations – feedback from the seminar faculty – discussions
• Assignment: each participants gets to review one recent submission to CIM, as a third reviewer

Session 3 – Experiencing, and learning from, reviewing scientific papers

• Review of the reviews (Jennie Björk) – additional feedback from the workshop faculty – discussions
• Wrap-up – summary of lessons learnt, further involvement with CIM

Date and place

The first session will take place on 4 December 2025, from 09:00-12:30 CET. The second and third session will be scheduled in the Spring and Autumn of 2026. The entire seminar will take place virtually.

Faculty

CIM and CINet are very happy to have found a great faculty of excellent reviewers and journal editors, namely:

• Michela Beretta (Aarhus Universit, Denmark)
• Jennie Björk (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
• Fausto Di Vincenzo (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy)
• Johan Frishammar (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
• René Chester Goduscheit (Aarhus University, Denmark)
• Luisa Pellegrini (University of Pisa, Italy)
• Tim Schweisfurth (Technical University of Hamburg, Germany)
• Melanie Wiener (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
• Patricia Wolf (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

Participation

The seminar is open to young scholars (PhD students, postdocs, early career assistant professors) without any or much experience in reviewing scientific papers. Consistent with the focus of both Creativity and Innovation Management and the Continuous Innovation Network, their research and/or teaching should be strongly related to creativity and/or innovation management or related areas.

Recognition

All participants will receive a certificate of participation. PhD students who can use the seminar as part of their studies may apply for an additional certificate, issued by the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, which has registered the seminar as an official PhD course, stating that the seminar covers a workload of 3 ECTS.

Application

Send your application by e-mail to Mrs. Jeannette-Visser-Groeneveld no later than November 20. The application should include your curriculum vitae, with details on your:

• Details on your areas of research and teaching
• Your list of publications (the last five years)
• Information about your reviewing experience