Beyond Fact Checking: Reconsidering the Status of Truth of Published Articles
Authors : David Pontille, Didier Torny Since the 17th century, scientific knowledge has been produced through a collective process, involving specific technolog...
Étiquette : Peer Review
Peer-review under review – A statistical study on proposal ranking at ESO. Part I: the pre-meeting phase
Author : Ferdinando Patat Peer review is the most common mechanism in place for assessing requests for resources in a large variety of scientific disciplines. O...
Assessment of potential bias in research grant peer review in Canada
Authors : Robyn Tamblyn, Nadyne Girard, Christina J. Qian, James Hanley BACKGROUND Peer review is used to determine what research is funded and published, yet l...
Pubpeer: vigilante science, journal club or alarm raiser? The controversies over anonymity in post-publication peer review
Author : Didier Torny The more journal peer review (JPR) became a scientific topic, the more it has been the subject of criticisms and controversies. Repeated f...
Can your paper evade the editors axe? Towards an AI assisted peer review system
Authors : Tirthankar Ghosal, Rajeev Verma, Asif Ekbal, Sriparna Saha, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Srinivasa Satya Sameer Kumar Chivukula, Georgios Tsatsaronis, Pasca...
The Social Structure of Consensus in Scientific Review
Authors : Misha Teplitskiy, Daniel Acuna, Aida Elamrani-Raoult, Konrad Kording, James Evans Personal connections between creators and evaluators of scientific w...
“Let the community decide”? The vision and reality of soundness-only peer review in open-access mega-journals
Authors : Valerie Spezi, Simon Wakeling, Stephen Pinfield, Jenny Fry, Claire Creaser, Peter Willett Purpose The purpose of this paper is to better understand th...