Characteristics of ‘mega’ peer-reviewers
Authors : Danielle B. Rice, Ba’ Pham, Justin Presseau, Andrea C. Tricco, David Moher Background The demand for peer reviewers is often perceived as disproportio...
Étiquette : Peer Review
Peer reviewers equally critique theory, method, and writing, with limited effect on the final content of accepted manuscripts
Author : Dimity Stephen The primary aims of peer review are to detect flaws and deficiencies in the design and interpretation of studies, and ensure the clarity...
How to improve scientific peer review: Four schools of thought
Authors : Ludo Waltman, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, Stephen Pinfield, Helen Buckley Woods Peer review plays an essential role as one of the cornerstones of the scho...
Peer reviewers’ dilemmas: a qualitative exploration of decisional conflict in the evaluation of grant applications in the medical humanities and social sciences
Authors : Gaëlle Vallée-Tourangeau, Ana Wheelock, Tushna Vandrevala, Priscilla Harris Independent evaluations of grant applications by subject experts are an im...
Reshaping How Universities Can Evaluate the Research Impact of Open Humanities for Societal Benefit
Authors : Paul Longley Arthur, Lydia Hearn During the twenty-first century, for the first time, the volume of digital data has surpassed the amount of analog da...
Innovations in peer review in scholarly publishing: a meta-summary
Authors : Helen Buckley Woods, Johanna Brumberg, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, Stephen Pinfield, Ludo Waltman Background There are currently numerous innovations in p...
Examining linguistic shifts between preprints and publications
Authors : David N. Nicholson, Vincent Rubinetti, Dongbo Hu, Marvin Thielk, Lawrence E. Hunter, Casey S. Greene Preprints allow researchers to make their finding...