Determining quality dimensions for peer review reports using a Delphi approach
Authors : Amanda Sizo, Adriano Lino, Álvaro Rocha, Luis Paulo Reis The quality of peer review reports is essential to the integrity and effectiveness of scholar...
Étiquette : Peer Review
Gaming the peer review system: Evidence for a review mill in medicine highlights the need to ensure reviewer integrity
Authors : M. Ángeles Oviedo-García, René Aquarius, Dorothy V. M. Bishop Background Review mills are recognized when individuals generate numerous generic review...
Back to the roots: reimagining scientific evaluation of research without peer review
Author : Malik Sallam The peer review system, once a noble aspiration, now lags behind the accelerating demands of modern science. This opinion piece calls for ...
Peer Review at the Crossroads
Author : Dmitry Kochetkov Peer review has long been regarded as a cornerstone of scholarly communication, ensuring high quality and credibility of published res...
Researchers’ Views on Preprints and Open Access Publishing: Results From a Free-Answer Survey of Japanese Molecular Biologists
Authors : Harufumi Tamazawa, Kazuki Ide, Kazuhisa Kamegai A survey conducted in 2022 amongst members of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (n = 633) about p...
Opening Pandora’s box: Developing reviewer rhetorical sensitivity through retracted articles
Author : Baraa Khuder Retractions issued for misconduct offer a unique window into how questionable research is rhetorically constructed and made to appear cred...
A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of AI Policies in Academic Peer Review
Authors : Zhongshi Wang, Mengyue Gong Rapid advances of artificial intelligence (AI) have substantially impacted the field of academic publishing. This study ex...