Peer Review

How Metrics Affect Peer Review for Academic Jobs and Grants
Impact
December 1, 2021

How Metrics Affect Peer Review for Academic Jobs and Grants

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Can Twitter Serve as a Tripwire for Problematic Research?
Research
August 18, 2021

Can Twitter Serve as a Tripwire for Problematic Research?

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My New Rap Album is Peer-Reviewed and on a University Press
Industry
March 16, 2021

My New Rap Album is Peer-Reviewed and on a University Press

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What’s Wrong with Peer Review?
Industry
September 16, 2020

What’s Wrong with Peer Review?

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Should We Take a Chance on Lotteries Determining Research Funding?

Should We Take a Chance on Lotteries Determining Research Funding?

Peer review is integral to the award of funds for academic research. Lambros Roumbanis argues that randomly awarding research funding via lotteries presents a more rational, efficient and most importantly unbiased means of distributing research funding.

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Junior Scientists are Often Underused as Peer Reviewers

Junior Scientists are Often Underused as Peer Reviewers

Their paper about the evolution of malaria was in review for what seemed like an eternity. Every month, Susan Perkins and her then-graduate student Spencer Galen would check in with the editors. The problem seemed to be a lack of peer reviewers …

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Why It’s So Hard to Reform Peer Review

Why It’s So Hard to Reform Peer Review

Robert J. Marks, the director of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, argues that academic reformers are battling numerical laws that govern how incentives work. His counsel? Know your enemy!

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Open Peer Review Not Always Welcomed With Open Arms

Open Peer Review Not Always Welcomed With Open Arms

It’s hoped open peer review could improve the speed and quality of reviews, but, not all academics are comfortable with open peer review and remain fearful of their comments and views being subject to public scrutiny. Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva argues this may prevent the open review system from being truly inclusive.

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Survey: Peer Reviewed Valued – If Someone Else Does It

Survey: Peer Reviewed Valued – If Someone Else Does It

During this Peer Review Week 2018, Tom Culley shares findings from the new Publons “Global State of Peer Review” report. As demands on the peer review system increase, reviewers are actually becoming less responsive to invitations.

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Crowd-Sourcing As a Complement to Peer Review

Crowd-Sourcing As a Complement to Peer Review

A new process developed by Princeton’s Matthew Salganik for reviewing academic manuscripts allows the world at large to examine and weigh in on a book at the same time the manuscript is undergoing peer review.

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How Should I Approach Reviewing an Article?

How Should I Approach Reviewing an Article?

Most early career researchers receive little to no training on how to peer review, and it’s not always easy to find consistent or helpful guidance. Here, during Peer Review Week, Katrina Newitt offers some helpful advice on how to get started.

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Cry from Publons: Let’s End Reviewer Fraud

Cry from Publons: Let’s End Reviewer Fraud

Peer review has become a major editorial challenge for publishers worldwide, but options do exist to help tackle fraudulent peer reviewers. In this post from the Publons blog, some options for what publishers can do are examined.

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