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How Does Mandated Code-sharing Change Peer Review? An Interview with PLOS Computational Biology

In today’s Peer Review Week guest post, Joe Pold of PLOS interviews the senior editorial team of PLOS Computational Biology about their experience of mandating code sharing for the journal, and its impact on peer review

  • By Joe Pold
  • Sep 26, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Ask the Chefs: What is the Single Most Pressing Issue for the Future of Peer Review?

What is the single most pressing issue for the future of peer review in scholarly publishing? In advance of Peer Review Week, we asked the Chefs.

  • By Karin Wulf, Rick Anderson, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Hong Zhou, Avi Staiman, Alice Meadows, Haseeb Irfanullah, Angela Cochran, Charlie Rapple
  • Sep 22, 2023
  • 17 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

AI Beyond the Publishing Workflow

What uses for artificial intelligence (AI) might we expect outside of the publication workflow? Some answers to this question can be found through the lenses of sustainability, justice, and resilience.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Aug 23, 2023
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Ghost-writing Peer Reviews Should Be a Thing of the Past

Policies that formally give peer reviewers the option to officially invite a colleague to collaborate with them improve integrity, transparency, and offers a chance to give fair credit where it is due.

  • By Laura Feetham-Walker
  • Jul 26, 2023
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — Peer Review Week 2023 to Focus on Peer Review and the Future of Publishing

Peer Review Week is an annual global event exploring and celebrating the essential role of peer review. This year’s Peer Review Week theme is “Peer Review and the Future of Publishing.”

  • By Roohi Ghosh, Lindsay Morton
  • Jul 17, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post: Start at the Beginning – The Need for ‘Research Practice’ Training

Danny Kingsley suggests that research integrity begins with the training researchers receive at university. Achieving Open Research and increasing reproducibility requires systematic research training that focuses specifically on research practice.

  • By Danny Kingsley
  • Feb 23, 2023
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Enabling Trustable, Transparent, and Efficient Submission and Review in an Era of Digital Transformation

Digital transformation in submission and peer review offers improvements for publications and a better experience for researchers and journal staff.

  • By Hong Zhou, Sylvia Izzo Hunter
  • Jan 31, 2023
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

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

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

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

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

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

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

Guest Post — Leveraging the Digital ABCs: AI, Big Data, and Cloud Computing

In today’s guest post, Hong Zhou and Megan Prosser of Atypon explore how new technology and new ideas — specifically around AI, Big Data, and Cloud computing – can advance our industry.

  • By Hong Zhou, Megan Prosser
  • Jul 13, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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