Peer Review's Give-and-Take
Maybe there isn't a peer-review 'crisis,' at least in terms of quantity.
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Peer Review: Rooting out Bias
Tackling unconscious bias is a major challenge for journals and the rest of the scientific community.
Difficulty In Finding Reviewers Taints Editorial Decisions
Journal editors are more likely to reject papers when they experience trouble recruiting reviewers, reports a new study.
Does Peer Review Identify the Best Papers?
New simulation study says peer review is better at assuring quality research than random publication choices, but some systems of review are significantly better than others. Editors seen as more effective than peer-review panels alone.
Publons New Index Reveals Who is Doing Lion's Share of Peer Review
Publons new Review Distribution Index reveals that a small proportion of reviewers do the lion's share of the peer review.
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?
Opinions are divided on whether the surge in popularity of pre-prints represent a field-wide disaster or the coming of a populist revolution.
Artificial Intelligence in Peer Review
How can evolutionary computation support journal editors?
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.
Academics' Top Tips for Publishing Success
Is your resolution for the new academic year to publish more? Here, 16 scholars give advice on pitching, editing and writing – and dealing with negative peer reviews.
A Powerful Partnership Brings Open Annotation to EPUBs
The world's first open-source, standards-based annotation capability in an EPUB viewer.
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.
eLife and Collaborative Knowledge Foundation Partner
The goal is to deliver an open-source submission and peer-review platform
And the Sentinel Award Goes To...
Congratulations to Irene Hames, the winner of Publons' inaugural Sentinel Award - for outstanding advocacy, innovation or contribution to scholarly peer review.
'One-Size-Fits-All’ Threshold for P Values Under Fire
Scientists hit back at a proposal to make it tougher to call findings statistically significant.
Seven Things I Learned at the 8th International Peer Review Congress
Here's a brief summary of some key takeaways from this year's Peer Review Congress, held every four years. A talk by the Swiss National Science Foundation was especially enjoyed.
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.
Peer Review Week 2017
Transparency in Review, and other innovations - Research in progress blog
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.
Does Born-Digital Mean Rethinking Peer Review?
What kind of peer review is developing to evaluate long-form digital scholarship? A view from AAUP press editors.
How Post-Publication Peer Review Is Improving the Quality of Science
How Post-Publication Peer Review Is Improving the Quality of Science
With science needing to always be reviewed to be sure it is correct, using Post-publication peer review is useful for scientific accuracy.
Making Peer Reviews Citable, Discoverable, and Creditable
Peer review infrastructure will arrive at Crossref in one month.
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
The Search for the Right Reviewers
Find out how Pure is giving the Research Council of Norway access to a global pool of experts for its wide variety of projects.
What Is Open Peer Review? A Systematic Review
A systematic review of definitions of “open peer review” or “open review”, to create a corpus of 122 definitions.
Bland Peer Review Needs a Pinch of Salt
Wise and honourable assessors of grant applications must be allowed to use their discretion, says Sui Huang
A Unified Definition of Open Peer Review
A unified definition of open peer review – an author and reviewer in conversation
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