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...
Étiquette : Peer Review
“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...
Survey on open peer review: Attitudes and experience amongst editors, authors and reviewers
Authors : Tony Ross-Hellauer, Arvid Deppe, Birgit Schmidt Open peer review (OPR) is a cornerstone of the emergent Open Science agenda. Yet to date no large-scal...
Artificial intelligence in peer review: How can evolutionary computation support journal editors?
Authors : Maciej J. Mrowinski, Piotr Fronczak, Agata Fronczak, Marcel Ausloos, Olgica Nedic With the volume of manuscripts submitted for publication growing eve...
Preventing the ends from justifying the means: withholding results to address publication bias in peer-review
Authors : Katherine S. Button, Liz Bal, Anna Clark, Tim Shipley The evidence that many of the findings in the published literature may be unreliable is compelli...
Does Peer Review Identify the Best Papers? A Simulation Study of Editors, Reviewers, and the Scientific Publication Process
Author : Justin Esarey How does the structure of the peer review process, which can vary among journals, influence the quality of papers published in a journal?...
A Proposed Currency System for Academic Peer Review Payments Using the BlockChain Technology
Author : Michael Spearpoint Peer review of scholarly papers is seen to be a critical step in the publication of high quality outputs in reputable journals. Howe...