Peer Review: Feeling Like a 'real' Scientist
Peer reviewing helped a graduate student to finally gain a sense of belonging within the research community.
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Why Early-Career Researchers Should Step Up to the Peer-Review Plate
Science benefits when junior scientists sign up as reviewers. It's also good for their careers.
ELife, PREreview and Partners Develop Course to Involve More African Researchers in Peer Review
ELife, PREreview and Partners Develop Course to Involve More African Researchers in Peer Review
The training course adds to ongoing efforts to promote greater diversity in scholarly review.
A Billion-dollar Donation: Estimating the Cost of Researchers' Time Spent on Peer Review
A Billion-dollar Donation: Estimating the Cost of Researchers' Time Spent on Peer Review
By design, our results are very likely to be under-estimates as they reflect only a portion of the total number of journals worldwide. The numbers highlight the enormous amount of work and time that researchers provide to the publication system, and the importance of considering alternative ways of …
Building Bridges with the Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA)
Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) committee members champion the benefits of standardizing the transfer of papers between journals.
Recognition in Peer Review
A look at recognition in peer review, what's offered now and what's on the horizon. How does this affect the process?
The Evolving Role of Scientific Editing
In a collaborative open peer review process, the editor's role changes as much as the reviewer's role.
Open Reviewer Identities: Full Steam Ahead or Proceed with Caution?
Open peer review has been growing steadily but its implementations take many different forms. This post takes a deep dive into the question of whether reviewers should be openly identified.
Collecting Gender Data in Royal Society Journals to Address Bias in Peer Review
Collecting Gender Data in Royal Society Journals to Address Bias in Peer Review
In this article the decision to collect gender data for Royal Society journals with the aim to identify and respond to potential biases in the peer review process is discussed.
Axes of Diversity and Peer Review
This post explores how diversity plays an important role in the peer review system.
The Dawn of the Age of Duplicate Peer Review
Will the plethora review options for preprints usher in a new age of duplicate peer review?
How Science Moved Beyond Peer Review During The Pandemic
And what scientists learned they still needed it for.
Revisiting: How to Be A Good Peer Reviewer
There are quite a few ways to shift bad behaviors and habits of reviewers to become not just good, but great peer reviewers.
What's Wrong with Paying for Peer Review?
Lots of things are wrong with paying for peer review.
Not What You Know, but Whom You Know? Study of ERC Stirs Old Scientific Controversy
Not What You Know, but Whom You Know? Study of ERC Stirs Old Scientific Controversy
A new study of grants awarded to early-career researchers by Europe's premier science agency is reviving an old controversy over the way governments decide which scientists get research money, and which do not.
Scientific Image Sleuth Faces Legal Action for Criticizing Research Papers
Scientific Image Sleuth Faces Legal Action for Criticizing Research Papers
Researchers say the complaint filed against Elisabeth Bik could have a 'chilling effect' on scholarly criticism.
Hundreds of Gibberish Papers Still Lurk in the Scientific Literature
Hundreds of Gibberish Papers Still Lurk in the Scientific Literature
The nonsensical computer-generated articles, spotted years after the problem was first seen, could lead to a wave of retractions.
German Professors' Motivation to Act As Peer Reviewers
Acting as a reviewer is considered a substantial part of the role-bundle of the academic profession. However, little is known about academics' motivation to act as reviewers.
Collaborative Workshop: Best Practices and Innovative Approaches to Peer Review (29 April)
Collaborative Workshop: Best Practices and Innovative Approaches to Peer Review (29 April)
Join AfricArXiv, Eider Africa, TCC Africa, and PREreview for a virtual discussion and collaborative review of an African-relevant preprint.
Shifting Toward 'open Peer Review'
If we want real public understanding of new findings, we must also open up peer review.
Fifteen Journals to Outsource Peer-Review Decisions
Free reviews from a nonprofit body could add to questions facing scientific publishers.
Why I Won't Review or Write for Elsevier and Other Commercial Scientific Journals
Why I Won't Review or Write for Elsevier and Other Commercial Scientific Journals
This author asks: Can scientists who are so meticulous in preparing their papers and so generous with their time in reviewing them for free not find better ways to advance science than relying on profiteering journals?
Meta-Research: Weak Evidence of Country- and Institution-Related Status Bias in the Peer Review of Abstracts
Meta-Research: Weak Evidence of Country- and Institution-Related Status Bias in the Peer Review of Abstracts
A preregistered survey experiment spanning six disciplines has found weak evidence of bias in favour of authors from high-status countries and institutions.
ELife and PREreview Partner to Promote Greater Diversity in Peer Review
The two initiatives are continuing their joint efforts to increase the diversity of voices in scholarly review.
Peer Review in Transition?
In recent decades new innovations in peer review have been developed to address issues of bias and inefficiency. These innovations are multifarious, but many of them relate to openness of peer review, reviewer incentives, and technological enhancements, such as the use of artificial intelligence.
The $450 Question: Should Journals Pay Peer Reviewers?
Payment advocates expect quicker, better reviews but opponents fear unsustainable costs.
AI-Assisted Peer Review
Many platforms have already started to use automated screening tools, to prevent plagiarism and failure to respect format requirements. Some tools even attempt to flag the quality of a study or summarise its content, to reduce reviewers' load.
Peer Reviewers - Time for Mass Rebellion?
Richard Smith spent some time reviewing two scientific papers, and the experience has made him wonder if it is time for peer reviewers to rise up in rebellion.
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