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Archives: editorial review

Editors can’t spot talent. I’ve heard this joke before. It isn’t funny

Editors at The BMJ are lousy at predicting the citation performance of research papers. Or are they?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Dec 15, 2022
  • 3 Comments

Fighting Citation Pollution — The Challenge of Detecting Fraudulent Journals in Works Cited

Scholarly publishing needs a scalable, easily adopted, and industry-wide approach to the problem of author manuscripts including citations to articles in fraudulent journals.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Michael Clarke
  • Sep 25, 2019
  • 34 Comments

What Constitutes Peer Review of Data? A Survey of Peer Review Guidelines

What constitutes peer review of a data set?

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Apr 11, 2017
  • 3 Comments

The Downside of Scale for Journal Publishers: Quality Control and Filtration

Scale can be achieved by broadly outsourcing the editorial process. Does this lead to a loss in quality control, and is this acceptable?

  • By David Crotty
  • Mar 22, 2016
  • 25 Comments

Do Uninteresting Papers Really Need Peer Review?

Do papers reporting null results or confirmational results need to go through the same process as papers reporting significant and novel results? Or do they require only passing a perfunctory editorial review?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Mar 20, 2013
  • 15 Comments

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