What do we know about grant peer review in the health sciences?
Authors : Susan Guthrie, Ioana Ghiga, Steven Wooding Background Peer review decisions award >95% of academic medical research funding, so it is crucial to un...
Étiquette : Peer Review
A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review
Authors : Jonathan P. Tennant, Jonathan M. Dugan, Daniel Graziotin, Damien C. Jacques, François Waldner, Daniel Mietchen, Yehia Elkhatib, Lauren B. Collister, C...
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...
The false academy: predatory publishing in science and bioethics
Authors : Stefan Eriksson, Gert Helgesson This paper describes and discusses the phenomenon ‘predatory publishing’, in relation to both academic journals and bo...
Global Data Quality Assessment and the Situated Nature of “Best” Research Practices in Biology
Author : Sabina Leonelli This paper reflects on the relation between international debates around data quality assessment and the diversity characterising resea...
Decentralized creation of academic documents using a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server
Authors : Johannes Wilm, Afshin Sadeghi, Christoph Lange, Philipp Mayr Scholarly document creation continues to face various obstacles. Scholarly text productio...
Peer reviewing: a private affair between the individual researcher and the publishing houses, or a responsibility of the university?
Authors : Leif Longva, Eirik Reierth, Lars Moksness, Bård Smedsrød Peer reviewing is mandatory for scientific journals as quality control of submitted manuscrip...