What Might Peer Review Look Like in 2030?
A report based on the sessions at the SpotOn London conference held at Wellcome Collection Conference centre in November 2016.
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How to Critically Evaluate a Manuscript
You've accepted an invitation to review a research article. Here's some step by step guidance for how to do it right.
Phony Peer Review
An unknown number of published studies have a hidden flaw: The “peers” who supposedly vouched for their publication are phonies.
Reviewers Are Blinkered by Bibliometrics
Science panels still rely on poor proxies to judge quality and impact.
Historic Co-Authorships Speed up Editor Handling Times
Journal editors tend to accept manuscripts written by prior collaborators more quickly.
Review time in peer review: quantitative analysis and modelling of editorial workflows
Review time in peer review: quantitative analysis and modelling of editorial workflows
A data-driven theoretical investigation of editorial workflows.
Qauality and transparency of the peer-review process
The transparency of the peer-review process is an indicator of peer-review quality.
Rewarding reviewers - sense or sensibility?
Respondents value recognition initiatives related to receiving feedback from the journal over monetary rewards and payment in kind.
Why the referees' reports I receive as an editor are so much better than the reports I receive as an author?
Why the referees' reports I receive as an editor are so much better than the reports I receive as an author?
Authors tend to attribute manuscript acceptance to their own ability to write quality papers and simultaneously to blame rejections on negative bias in peer review, displaying a self-serving attributional bias.
Peer evaluation of science
This is a proposal for a system for evaluation of the quality of scientific papers by open review of the papers through a platform inspired by StackExchange.
Post-publication peer review: signed or anonymous?
Participating in open and signed post-publication peer review may not be so bad for your career after all.
Transparent peer review at Nature Communications
Starting Jan 2016 Nature Communications will publish peer reviews alongside with the paper.
The case for abolishing traditional peer review
We have little or no evidence that peer review 'works,' but we have lots of evidence of its downside.
Annotating the scholarly web
Scientific publishers are forging links with an organization that wants scientists to scribble comments over online research papers.
How peer-review constrains cognition
Peer-review is neither reliable, fair, nor a valid basis for predicting 'impact': as quality control, peer-review is not fit for purpose.
Reviewing Peer Review at the NIH
Interview with Dr. Michael Lauer on peer review of NIH grant applications and how it can be improved.
Reviewer fatigue? Why scholars decline to review their peers' work
Breuning et al. include some tips for avoiding reviewer fatigue:
2015 survey: a global view
White paper showing that the vast majority of authors believe that blind peer review helps to minimize discrimination.
Publons partners with ORCID to give more credit for peer review
Building on the momentum of Peer Review Week 2015, we are excited to announce a partnership with ORCID to extend the credit you get from your Publons verified reviews.
Does the peer review model affect the quality of peer review?
BMC editors show that the quality of peer review is slightly higher in BMC Infectious Diseases that operates open peer review compared to BMC Microbiology operating single-blind peer review.
Are you actually volunteering your time?
To me, volunteering your time means forgoing payment for your time. But how is this affected when someone else is cashing in on your time instead?
Openness Initiative
An initiative to incentivise open research practices through peer review.
Preprints and the speed of science
Peer review is often claimed to be the guarantor of the trustworthiness of scientific papers, but it is a troubled process. Preprints offer a way out.
JANE: Journal/Author Name Estimator
Have you recently written a paper, but you're not sure to which journal you should submit it? Or maybe you want to find relevant articles to cite in your paper? Or are you an editor, and do you need to find reviewers for a particular paper? Jane can help!
Better than riches
The involvement of online discussion sites in the identification of errors, anomalies and worse in the published literature continues to demonstrate the usefulness of post-publication review. It also highlights the ambiguous power of anonymity.
PEERE-ing into peer review
PEERE is a project funded by the European Union to explore issues around journal and grant peer review, running from 2014 to 2018.
Using simplified peer review processes to fund research: a prospective study
Using simplified peer review processes to fund research: a prospective study
Simplified processes save time and money that could be reallocated to actual research. Funding agencies should consider streamlining their application processes.
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