« We investigate the supply, demand, quality, and efficiency of scholarly peer review to bring greater transparency to the process
What does the peer review landscape look like today? Is it getting better or worse? And who’s actually doing all the peer review, anyway? We made it part of our Peer…
« Avec la signature de V Kiermer, groupe PLOS, ce sont 7 revues qui rejoignent les revues ayant décidé de mettre en ligne les avis des reviewers avec l’article. Le groupe PLOS, notamment PLOS ONE, publie 23 000 articles de recherches par an dans de nombreux domaines scientifiques, et le volume…
« The main contributors of scientific knowledge, researchers, generally aim to disseminate their findings far and wide. And yet, publishing companies have largely kept these findings behind a paywall. With digital publication technology markedly reducing cost, this enduring wall seems disproportionate and unjustified; moreover, it has sparked a topical exchange concerning…
« L’éditeur scientifique Elsevier s’est offert la société Aries Systems, à l’origine d’outils informatiques de publication de documents et d’articles. Autrement dit, Aries Systems permettait aux auteurs de mettre en ligne les résultats de leurs recherches pour permettre leur relecture par des pairs. L’acquisition d’Elsevier soulève plusieurs questions, puisque les solutions…
« Elsevier, the global information analytics business specializing in science and health, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aries Systems, a leader in scientific publication workflow solutions headquartered outside Boston, MA. Aries’ offerings are used by journals, books and other publications…
« Science journalism in Germany in the last days was awash with a report on “predatory publishers” and an integrity ‘crisis’ for German science. (…)
Since the value of mutual review of papers by peer researchers is well established, and since most authors usually will anyway avoid publishing behaviours that may…
« Peer review is considered the gold standard of scientific publishing. Trust in the traditional system of editor – blind-reviewer – author is still high, but it’s authority is in decline and alternative methods are on the rise. The current study investigates opinions of alternative peer review methods, the arguments…
« Open peer review (OPR), as with other elements of open science and open research, is on the rise. It aims to bring greater transparency and participation to formal and informal peer review processes. But what is meant by `open peer review’, and what advantages and disadvantages does it have over…
« Mary Yianni, Publisher at Taylor & Francis, reviews the different models of peer review and explains the emerging role of preprints in biomedical sciences, including feedback from the recent 14th Annual Meeting of ISMPP (…) »
« The new exposure of peer review information through its public API provides opportunities for discoverability, analysis, and integration of tools.
In response to requests from the community for flexible registering of peer review content (and associated discussions of published content), Crossref has extended its infrastructure to not only support the…
