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Archives: Peer Review

Guest Post — Integrity and Trust in Peer Reviewed Literature: Will Journals Be Alone in Doing the Heavy Lifting?

We round out Peer Review Week with a guest post by Erin Landis, Meghan McDevitt, and Jason Roberts of Origin Editorial reporting on the 2022 Peer Review Congress.

  • By Erin Landis, Meghan McDevitt, Jason Roberts
  • Sep 23, 2022
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

It’s Peer Review Week Video Time!

Enjoy a host of peer review related videos from the Peer Review Week team!

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Sep 22, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Peer Review and Humanities Online: An Interview with Daryle Williams about the Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation

Key insights on how peer review functions for a new journal, handling data on individual lives of people enslaved in the historical slave trade, that serves both academic and public audiences.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Sep 21, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Peer Review and Research Integrity: Five Reasons to be Cheerful

Chris Graf (and colleagues) present five reasons to be cheerful about research integrity and peer review.

  • By Chris Graf
  • Sep 20, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Does Trust in Research Begin with Trust in Peer Review?

Kicking off Peer Review Week 2022: Does trust in research begin with trust in peer review across the whole ecosystem, and what does that look like for different communities and stakeholders?

  • By Karin Wulf, Alice Meadows, Tim Vines
  • Sep 19, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Ask an Editor-in-Chief/Surgeon/Researcher/Author/Reviewer: Is Research Integrity Possible without Peer Review?

One more answer to the question, Is Research Integrity Possible without Peer Review? Today’s response is from journal Editor-in-Chief and surgeon, D. Robert Siemens.

  • By Jennifer Regala, D. Robert Siemens
  • Sep 16, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Ask the Chefs: Is Research Integrity Possible without Peer Review?

Continuing the run-up to this year’s Peer Review Week (September 19-23) today you’ll hear the Chefs’ answers to the question: Is research integrity possible without peer review?

  • By Alice Meadows, Rick Anderson, David Smith, Haseeb Irfanullah, Tim Vines, David Crotty
  • Sep 15, 2022
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

We Asked the Community: Is Research Integrity Possible without Peer Review?

For an early start on Peer Review Week, we reached out to the SSP community to ask “Is research integrity possible without peer review?” 

  • By Jennifer Regala, Michael Groth, MIchael Casp
  • Sep 14, 2022
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 12 mins

The Peer Review Workbench: An Interview with Bahar Mehmani

Learn about Elsevier’s recently launched Peer Review Workbench – a new tool for researchers conducting meta research – in this interview with Bahar Mehmani

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Sep 8, 2022
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Ask The Chefs: OSTP Policy Part II

Day 2 of Chef reactions to the OSTP Policy memo. What are your thoughts? Share your views with the Scholarly Kitchen community.

  • By Ann Michael, Todd A Carpenter, Angela Cochran, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Karin Wulf, Michael Clarke
  • Aug 31, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Revisiting — Should You “Revise and Resubmit”? Probably

Today Angela Cochran revisits a post from 2016 on “revise and resubmit” decisions and what it means for authors and editors. Do new peer review models or cascading programs change the use of “revise and resubmit”?

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Aug 22, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Still Ambiguous at Best? Revisiting “If We Don’t Know What Citations Mean, What Does it Mean When We Count Them”

If we don’t know what citations mean, what does it mean when we count them? Revisiting a 2015 (!) post in light of recent developments in citation metrics and impact.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Aug 17, 2022
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Has Peer Review Created a Toxic Culture in Academia? Moving from ‘Battering’ to ‘Bettering’ in the Review of Academic Research

Avi Staiman suggests revamping the peer review process to make it less about tearing down the work of others, and more about helping authors improve their papers.

  • By Avi Staiman
  • Aug 16, 2022
  • 31 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Announcing Peer Review Week 2022: An Interview with the Co-Chairs

The theme for Peer Review Week 2022 is Research Integrity: Creating and supporting trust in research – learn more in today’s interview with co-chairs Danielle Padua and Jayashree Rajagopalan

  • By Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, Tim Vines, Karin Wulf
  • Jul 7, 2022
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Desperately Seeking (Statistical) Significance

Twitter does not increase citations, a reanalysis of author data shows. Did the authors p-hack their data?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jun 15, 2022
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

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