« Scientific publishing is experiencing unprecedented growth in terms of outputs across all fields. Inevitably this creates pressure throughout the system on a number of entities. One key element is represented by peer-reviewers, whose demand increases at an even higher pace than that of publications, since more than one reviewer per…
« Last year, an open letter recognising the benefits of transparency in peer review processes was launched: it now has 335 journal signatories. Many of these journals have implemented a range of transparent peer review processes, such as publishing reviewers’ comments alongside articles, with or…
« The project for a Shared Infrastructure on Transparent and Transportable Peer Review was started in March 2018, by Digital Science, SpringerNature, Cambridge University Press and Taylor&Francis, supported by ORCID and Katalysis. The project aims to develop a shared infrastructure for sharing peer review information, enabled by blockchain technology, with the…
« Le peer-review ouvert consiste à mettre en ligne les avis des relecteurs (signés ou non signés) avec l’article publié, ainsi qu’à divulguer les noms des relecteurs aux auteurs du manuscrit évalué. Il existe des variantes, et nous avons commenté un article proposant 122 définitions. Les auteurs citent des revues pratiquant…
« The burden on the peer review community is increasing as the volume of published research articles grows. Research output is rising exponentially and this is putting pressure on the system, with many academics inundated with requests to peer review. The recent Global State of Peer Review report…
« SAE International has partnered with Publons to help train and recognize reviewers of its journals.
The initial agreement covers six SAE International journals. Through the process, reviewers can quickly and efficiently earn credit for being a verified reviewer. The process is conducted through SAE International’s submission and…
« The concept of publishing peer review comments alongside an article, to increase transparency in the publication process, is gathering momentum. It is generally agreed by the scientific community that a more open system will improve trust and possibly the efficiency of peer review. (…) »
« The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), like many other research funders, requires its grantees to make papers available via open access (OA). This article investigates the effect of publishing in OA journals and international collaboration within and between European and sub-Saharan African countries on citation impact and…
« New, scalable open peer review workflow using Publons and ScholarOne technology now live across Wiley’s prestigious journal Clinical Genetics
John Wiley and Sons Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), a global leader in education and scholarly research; Publons, the world’s largest peer review platform; and ScholarOne, the leading manuscript submission system, today announced…
« (…) This podcast explores some of the formal and informal ways that institutions contribute to diversity in the pool of peer reviewers by admitting a global and diverse population of potential researchers to undergraduate and graduate education. (…) »
