Survey with Early-Career Researchers
Many researchers have strong views on peer review. To find out what early-career researchers think we conducted a survey in which we asked 10 questions about different aspects of peer review.
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The Peer Review Process for Awarding Funds to International Science Research Consortia: a Qualitative Developmental Evaluation
The Peer Review Process for Awarding Funds to International Science Research Consortia: a Qualitative Developmental Evaluation
This article describes the use of qualitative research to explore the peer review process used for awarding grants to ten multi-national natural science research consortia
Journal Peer Review: A Bar or Bridge? An Analysis of a Paper's Revision History and Turnaround Time, and the Effect on Citation
Journal Peer Review: A Bar or Bridge? An Analysis of a Paper's Revision History and Turnaround Time, and the Effect on Citation
Article exploring the journal peer review process, examining how the reviewing process might itself contribute to papers, leading them to be more highly cited and to achieve greater recognition.
Attitudes and Experience Amongst Editors, Authors and Reviewers
Overall satisfaction with the peer review system used by scholarly journals seems to strongly vary across disciplines.
New Feature Aims to Draw Journals Into Post-Publication Comments on PubPeer
The Journal Dashboards allow journals to see what people are saying about the papers they published, and allows readers to know which journals are particularly responsive to community feedback.
An Ineffective and Unworthy Institution
Les Hatton and Gregory Warr give their two-pronged solution to the problems of peer review
Should Scientists Receive Credit for Peer Review?
We might hope for a better future where everyone acts professionally, but we should be realistic about the flaws of our human nature. Opinion piece by Stephen Curry.
What Do We Know About Grant Peer Review in the Health Sciences?
What Do We Know About Grant Peer Review in the Health Sciences?
Peer review decisions award >95% of academic medical research funding, so it is crucial to understand how well they work and if they could be improved.
Make Reviews Public, Says Peer Review Expert
Retraction Watch interviews Irene Hames.
The Future of Research Assessment
A collection that explores recent developments and debates in the UK and internationally, offering varied perspectives on the future of research assessment.
Reviewer Bias in Single- Versus Double-Blind Peer Review
Single-blind reviewing confers a significant advantage to papers with famous authors and authors from high-prestige institutions.
The Fractured Logic of Blinded Peer Review in Journals
The case for “blinding” to make journal peer review fair seems less and less plausible to me for the long run. It even seems antithetical to ultimately reducing the problems it’s a bandaid solution for.
A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on Emergent and Future Innovations in Peer Review
A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on Emergent and Future Innovations in Peer Review
Emerging models of peer review from a range of disciplines and venues, and to ask how they might address some of the issues with our current systems of peer review.
Expertise in Sciences and the Decision of What Is Publishable: A Noble yet Endangered Task
Expertise in Sciences and the Decision of What Is Publishable: A Noble yet Endangered Task
How is a scientific article accepted for publication in an academic journal? What is the role of peer reviewers? Where does the system go astray?
PREreview: A Preprint Journal Club
Encouraging researchers to post their outputs as preprints.
The End of an Error?
What would the world be like without formal peer review?, asks Fields medallists Timothy Gowers.
Peer Review's Give-and-Take
Maybe there isn't a peer-review 'crisis,' at least in terms of quantity.
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.
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