Open Access Publishing, academic research and scholarly communication
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the difference between Open Access and accessibility, to argue that accessibility is the most crucial feature, a...
Étiquette : Peer Review
Retrospective analysis of the quality of reports by author-suggested and non-author-suggested reviewers in journals operating on open or single-blind peer review models
Objectives To assess whether reports from reviewers recommended by authors show a bias in quality and recommendation for editorial decision, compared with revie...
Review times in peer review: quantitative analysis of editorial workflows
We examine selected aspects of peer review and suggest possible improvements. To this end, we analyse a dataset containing information about 300 papers submitte...
From Peer-Reviewed to Peer-Reproduced in Scholarly Publishing: The Complementary Roles of Data Models and Workflows in Bioinformatics
Motivation Reproducing the results from a scientific paper can be challenging due to the absence of data and the computational tools required for their analysis...
Hybrid Review: Taking SoTL Beyond Traditional Peer Review for Journal Publication
« Developments in emergent technology offer innovative solutions for facilitating a hybrid review process; we examine a unique combination of private–peer and o...
Peer review: still king in the digital age
« The article presents one of the main findings of an international study of 4,000 academic researchers that examined how trustworthiness is determined in the d...
Data without Peer: Examples of Data Peer Review in the Earth Sciences
« Peer review of data is an important process if data is to take its place as a first class research output. Much has been written about the theoretical aspects...