« Peer review is a critical component of the scientific process. When conducted properly by dedicated and competent reviewers, it helps to safeguard the quality, validity, authority and rigour of academic work. However, bias in peer review is well documented and can skew objectivity of the review and hinder fair assessment…
« (…) In mid-August 2022, Clarivate fused Publons into the Web of Science platform. Publons, as a brand peer review service, has now ceased to exist but some of the functionality remains in Web of Science while other aspects that used to be open and free at Publons are now paid-for…
« As peer review week begins, Michael Barber considers some recent advances to improve peer review processes in the scholarly publishing system. (…) »
« Reviewers do not only help editors to screen manuscripts for publication in academic journals; they also serve to increase the rigor and value of manuscripts by constructive feedback. However, measuring this developmental function of peer review is difficult as it requires fine-grained data on reports and journals without any optimal…
« The skill of analyzing and interpreting research data is central to the scientific process, yet it is one of the hardest skills for students to master. While instructors can coach students through the analysis of data that they have either generated themselves or obtained from published articles, the burgeoning availability…
« Denis Bourguet est DR INRAE dans l’UMR CBGP. Depuis 5 ans il est le co-fondateur et co-manager (avec Thomas Guillemaud) de Peer Community In une façon alternative de reviewer des papiers scientifiques en s’affranchissant des revues officielle qui coute cher à la communauté. (…) »
« Cette fiche décrit le déroulement d’une évaluation et différentie les modèles en fonction de quatre critères : visibilité des identités des intervenants de l’évaluation, mode d’interaction entre ces intervenants, publication des informations de l’évaluation, commentaires post-publication. (…) »
« The amount and value of researchers’ peer review work is critical for academia and journal publishing. However, this labor is under-recognized, its magnitude is unknown, and alternative ways of organizing peer review labor are rarely considered.
Using publicly available data, we provide an estimate of researchers’ time and the…
« What is a PREreview Community?
PREreview Communities are preprint reviewing groups that form around an identity, research topic, an institution, a laboratory, a journal club, a program, or any other dimension that may bind a group. (…) »
« Advances in science and technology depend on the work of research teams and the publication of results through peer-reviewed articles representing a growing socio-economic resource. Current methods to mine the scientific literature regarding a field of interest focus on content, but the workforce credited by authorship remains largely unexplored. Notably,…
