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Some Thoughts on the Promise and Pitfalls of Innovation and Technology in Peer Review 

Today Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, and Karin Wulf officially kick off a week of posts to celebrate Peer Review Week 2024 on the Kitchen with their thoughts on the promise and pitfalls of innovation and technology in peer review

  • By Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, Karin Wulf
  • Sep 23, 2024
  • 1 Comment

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

Science and Truth, Stanford President and Student Journalism Edition

A world famous scientist and university president brought down by a student journalist’s investigative reporting. But the big story is how we fund and reward ethical research.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Aug 9, 2023
  • 4 Comments

Innovation at eLife: An Interview with Damian Pattinson

eLife’s recent announcement that it will reinvent itself as a “service that reviews preprints” has generated much discussion over recent weeks. But what are the primary drivers and goals, and what might we all learn from this bold experiment?

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • Nov 15, 2022
  • 2 Comments

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

Open Reviewer Identities: Full Steam Ahead or Proceed with Caution?

Open peer review has been growing steadily but its implementations take many different forms. Alison Mudditt and Véronique Kiermer take a deep dive into the question of whether reviewers should be openly identified.

  • By Véronique Kiermer, Alison Mudditt
  • Sep 21, 2021
  • 17 Comments

Identity in/and Peer Review: Kicking off Peer Review Week 2021

Identity in/ and Peer Review. Previewing some of the themes from this week’s posts for Peer Review Week.

  • By Karin Wulf, Jasmine Wallace, Alice Meadows
  • Sep 20, 2021
  • 1 Comment

What’s Wrong with Paying for Peer Review?

Lots of things are wrong with paying for peer review, according to Tim Vines and Alison Mudditt in the recent R2R conference debate

  • By Tim Vines, Alison Mudditt
  • Jun 16, 2021
  • 53 Comments

The Curse of Reviewer 89: An Interview with Filestage’s Niklas Dorn

A look at Thieme’s “Select Crowd Review” approach to peer review.

  • By Tim Vines
  • Nov 16, 2020
  • 26 Comments

Peer Review Week 2020 Resources For Everyone!

As we say farewell to another Peer Review Week, here are some handy resources created by members of the Organizing Committee that you can use all year round!

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Sep 25, 2020
  • 0 Comments

Trust and Review in Non-Scholarship Contexts

How do the concepts and the practices of trust and review function outside of a context specifically associated with scholarship, but still within the scholarly communications ecosystem? An interview with Roger Schonfeld.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Sep 25, 2020
  • 2 Comments

Ask the Community: What Would Improve Trust in Peer Review?

Peer Review Week posts continue! Last week we asked the Chefs, and this week we asked the global community: “what would improve trust in peer review?”

  • By Siân Harris
  • Sep 24, 2020
  • 14 Comments

Guest Post — The Economics of Trust in Peer Review

Peer Review Week 2020 continues with a guest post by Dawn Durante of the University of Texas Press, looking at trust in peer review from the perspective of economics.

  • By Dawn Durante
  • Sep 23, 2020
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post — Risks from Self-Referential Peer Review: An Interview with Jeffrey Unerman

Peer Review Week 2020 continues with a guest post by Bahar Mehmani of Elsevier, who interviewed Professor Jeffrey Unerman about his work on the risks of self-referential peer review.

  • By Bahar Mehmani
  • Sep 22, 2020
  • 1 Comment

Trust as an Ethic and a Practice in Peer Review

Chefs Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, and Karin Wulf tackle Peer Review Week 2020’s theme of Trust in Peer Review with this post on trust as both an ethic and a practice

  • By Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, Karin Wulf
  • Sep 21, 2020
  • 2 Comments

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