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The Emergence of a Field: A Network Analysis of Research on Peer Review

The Emergence of a Field: A Network Analysis of Research on Peer Review

This article provides a quantitative analysis of peer review as an emerging field of research by revealing patterns and connections between authors, fields and journals from 1950 to 2016.

Should Scientists Be Posting Their Work Online Before Peer Review? 

Should Scientists Be Posting Their Work Online Before Peer Review? 

Opinions are divided on whether the surge in popularity of pre-prints represent a field-wide disaster or the coming of a populist revolution.

Decisions, Decisions

Decisions, Decisions

Journals are exploring new approaches to peer review in order to reduce bias, increase transparency and respond to author preferences. Funders are also getting involved.

Few Authors Choose Anonymous Peer Review

Few Authors Choose Anonymous Peer Review

Massive study of Nature journals shows that scientists from developing countries and less prestigious institutes more often prefer reviewers to be blinded to their identity.

Misuse of Received Manuscripts by Peer Reviewers

Misuse of Received Manuscripts by Peer Reviewers

Trust that reviewers will treat manuscripts received for peer review as confidential communications is an essential tenet of peer review. New results suggest that breaches of this trust do occur.

bioRxiv Selects Hypothesis to Enable Annotation on Preprints

bioRxiv Selects Hypothesis to Enable Annotation on Preprints

Hypothesis and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory are today announcing the selection of the Hypothesis open source annotation framework for the bioRxiv preprint service as their primary annotation mechanism.

The 8th Olympiad of Research on Science & Publishing Begins

The 8th Olympiad of Research on Science & Publishing Begins

Once every 4 years editors, publishers, and meta-researchers assemble in Chicago for the Peer Review Congress - an intense researchfest about "enhancing the quality and credibility of science".

We Have the Technology to Save Peer Review – Now It Is up to Our Communities to Implement It

We Have the Technology to Save Peer Review – Now It Is up to Our Communities to Implement It

An introspective look at peer review, one we hope will be useful for future discussions on the topic.

5 Steps to Writing a Winning Post-Publication Review

5 Steps to Writing a Winning Post-Publication Review

We’re celebrating post-publication reviewers this Peer Review Week - find out why, and learn tips on how to write a winning review

A Collection of Papers that Should Never Have Been Published

A Collection of Papers that Should Never Have Been Published

A collection of thirteen papers that were intended to be unpublishable. All were submitted to predatory journals to expose non-existent peer review and exploitative practices.