Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Maintaining Anonymity In Double-Blind Peer Review During The Age of Artificial Intelligence
The double-blind review process, adopted by many publishers and funding agencies, plays a vital role in maintaining fairness and unbiasedness by concealing the identities of authors and reviewers. However, in the era of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, a pressing question arises: can an author’s identity be deduced even from an anonymized paper (in cases where the authors do not advertise their submitted article on social media)?
As We Evolve Science Policy We Must Vigilantly Assess Its Changes
Considering a series of proposed policy changes by the National Institutes of Health, Micah Altman and Philip N. Cohen, argue they highlight wider systematic gaps in the evaluation of operational science policies and signal an urgent need to increase funding for metascience.
Tipster’s Note Offers View of Academic Publishing’s Achilles Heel
An investigation by Undark and Retraction Watch finds that some journals’ special issue are being targeted by academic paper mills.
Upcoming Webinar Series: How To Be A Peer Reviewer
Sage is hosting ‘how to be a peer reviewer,’ a free webinar series that will explain the academic reviewing landscape. The event will be held on three occasions to accommodate audiences worldwide.
Feeling Saved by Feedback? Six Strategies That Help Academics to Cope
Six coping strategies drawn from positive psychology can help us cope with the sting of negative feedback.
Webinar Takes a Deep Dive into Peer Review
In honor of Peer Review Week (September 19-23), the next in SAGE Publishing’s series of ‘how to get published’ webinars will shed […]
We Unintentionally Hit a Nerve When Bemoaning the State of Peer Review
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to fix peer review. An astronomic number of ideas to repair peer review followed a tweet about the system.
Introducing The Publish Your Reviews Initiative for Preprints
Ludo Waltman and Jessica Polka make the case for a more contextualized approach to open access publishing and preprinting, and introduce the Publish Your Reviews initiative.
