Peer Review

12 Tips for Writing A Peer Review
Tips
November 8, 2017

12 Tips for Writing A Peer Review

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Peer Review: The ‘Least Worst’ Barrier to Bad Science
Higher Education Reform
September 26, 2017

Peer Review: The ‘Least Worst’ Barrier to Bad Science

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Revisiting Erica Frank’s 1996 Review of Peer Review
Higher Education Reform
September 13, 2017

Revisiting Erica Frank’s 1996 Review of Peer Review

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Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Peer Review and Publishing Itself?
International Debate
May 15, 2017

Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Peer Review and Publishing Itself?

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Fixing Peer Review, a Biologist’s View

Fixing Peer Review, a Biologist’s View

Peer review clearly isn’t perfect, but rather than simply bypassing it and releasing even more information into an overloaded system, we should focus on making it better, says this life sciences editor. The first step is to reset and clearly state our standards for quality in both publishing and peer reviewing.

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Recognition for Peer Review: Who’s Doing What?

Recognition for Peer Review: Who’s Doing What?

To help celebrate Peer Review Week 2016, the steering committee for the commemoration asked the 20+ organisations on the group to tell us how they #recognizereview and what more they hope to do in future. Their responses show a clear understanding of the importance of peer review and a firm commitment to supporting more recognition for review in future.

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Is Peer Review an Achilles Heel for Interdisciplinary Work?

Is Peer Review an Achilles Heel for Interdisciplinary Work?

Recent findings suggest interdisciplinary research is less likely to be funded than discipline-based research proposals, reports Gabriele Bammer, who argues different review processes may well be required to do justice to these different kinds of interdisciplinarity. 

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Does Competition Make Peer Review More Unfair?

Does Competition Make Peer Review More Unfair?

Researchers decided to conduct behavioral testing on competition and the process of peer review. What they learned offers some prescriptions for improving peer review going forward.

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I’m Looking Through You, Peer Review

I’m Looking Through You, Peer Review

Jon Tennant takes a look at the transformations underway aimed at tackling the widespread dissatisfaction with the system of peer review. He provides further background on the platform ScienceOpen, which seeks to enable a process of transparent, self-regulating, peer review, where knowledge sharing is encouraged, valued, and rewarded. By adopting a more transparent process of research evaluation, we move one step closer towards a fairer and democratic research process. 

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A Nobel Laureate Explains Peer Review’s Ins and Outs

A Nobel Laureate Explains Peer Review’s Ins and Outs

The author of the new book ‘The Knowledge War’ discusses the intricacies of peer review as practiced, and concludes with a clarion call for reviewers and editors to remember their duties, not their interests.

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Does Blind Peer Review Require a Makeover?

Does Blind Peer Review Require a Makeover?

This piece was originally posted in Management INK, a SAGE blog highlighting top scholarship and catering to academics, researchers and practitioners in the […]

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The Value of Peer Review: A View from Publons

The Value of Peer Review: A View from Publons

Andrew Preston of Publons argues that while the academic community does “a pretty good job of peer reviewing,” the process remains hampered by the 19th century technology used to manage the process.

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