Blog Category: Peer review

By Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, Wellcome In November 2016 Wellcome became the first research funder to launch a publishing platform for the exclusive use of its grantholders. Wellcome Open Research (WOR), run on behalf of Wellcome by Faculty of 1000 (F1000), uses a model of immediate publication followed by invited, post-publication peer review.

By Bodo M. Stern and Erin K.

By Michael B. Eisen Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley [email protected], @mbeisen With the rapid growth of bioRxiv, biomedical research is entering a new era in which papers describing our ideas, exp...

By Dr. Stuart Taylor, Publishing Director, The Royal Society, London, UK Peer review has been a key part of the research communication system for centuries.

By Chris Pickett Journal peer review is a critical part of vetting the integrity of the literature, and the research community should do more to value this exercise. Biomedical research is in a period of hypercompetition, and the pressures of hypercompetition force scientists to focus on metrics that define success in the current environment—funding, publications and jobs.

By Tony Hyman and Ron Vale Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden Germany ([email protected]) and the University of California, San Francisco, United States  ([email protected]) Rapid changes in communication technol... The days when John Maddox (1) joined Nature and found submitted manuscripts sitting in piles forgotten on the floor have long gone, and no longer do we receive publications as bound printed volumes.  Those lucky enough to be part of a rich insti...