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Blog Category: Peer review

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Trends in Open Peer Review: Research by Information Scientists

Peiling Wang, Professor, University of Tennessee-Knoxville & Dietmar Wolfram, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee In a recent open-access (OA) peer-reviewed article1, we report on the rapid growth of open peer review (OPR) journals from ... One of the major contributing publishers is MDPI which lists 204 OPR journals, with 128 and 63 OPR titles added in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

Transpose data reused by Clarivate to increase awareness of journal peer review and preprinting policies

Transpose is a community database of journal policies on peer review and preprinting developed with major contributions from ASAPbio. Launched almost a year ago after a sprint at the 2018 Scholarly Communications Institute, Transpose includes information on whether peer review is blinded, transparency of reviewer identities and reports, co-reviewing policies, versions of papers tha...

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Convening the Review Commons community

On December 9, 2019, ASAPbio, EMBO Press, and 17 affiliate journals launched Review Commons, a platform providing independent peer review prior to journal submission. At two subsequent community meetings (one in-person at the ASCB|EMBO conference and the other online the following week) the Review Commons team shared their motivations, planned workflow, and future vision.

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Reimagining review in a world of preprints

At the 2019 ASCB|EMBO cell biology meeting, we convened researchers, funders, publishers, and advocates in a panel discussion focused on making use of peer review on preprints. The use of preprints in the biomedical sciences has been&... Because preprints are shared publicly early in the publishing process, authors can receive broader feedback at a point when it is easier to incorporate.

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Community call recap: revealing quality of peer review through increased transparency

The theme of Peer Review week in 2019 was quality in peer review. However, the quality of most reviews are obscured to researchers because traditional peer review processes are conducted behind closed doors.

EMBO and ASAPbio to launch a pre-journal portable review platform

A multi-publisher partnership aims to streamline scientific publishing by producing refereed preprints Heidelberg and San Francisco—September 30, 2019—EMBO Press and ASAPbio have partnered to create Review Commons, a platform that peer-revi... Papers submitted to Review Commons, which will be launched in December 2019, will be assessed by expert referees without regard to any journal to which they might ultimately be submitted, and will be judged exclusively for their scientific rig...

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