This is a very important trial. I had been looking forward to its results since it started a few years ago. It’s…
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Bias Unpacking the Biggest Trial Yet of Naming Authors in Peer Review
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Peer review research roundup 5 Things We Learned About Journal Peer Review in 2022
This post is part of a series that I started in 2019, recapping the scientific results on peer review to that point…
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Science Communication Experiments on Naming Authors in Peer Review – Now With a New Kid on the Block
It’s been 6 years since the last results arrived from a randomized trial of revealing or concealing authors’ names for journal peer…
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Listicles 5 Things We Learned About Journal Peer Review in 2021
This post is part of a series that I started in 2019, recapping the scientific results on peer review to that point…
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Science Communication A Cartoon Guide to Criticism: Scientist Edition
Science is a profession where critique is integral to the work itself. So you might think we’d all have both criticizing, and…
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Listicles 5 Things We Learned About Peer Review in 2020
It’s a fundamental part of science – and yet peer review is not itself very science-based. It needs to be. The premise…
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Covid-19 Reasons to Worry Less About the Explosion of Preprints
It looks as though preprints are here to stay in biomedicine, and I think that’s great. But I’ve been hearing variants of…
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Listicles 5 Things We Learned About Peer Review in 2019
For something so fundamental to the practice of science, it’s perplexing that it took so long for serious research into…
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Peer review research roundup Off to a Patchy Start: Milestones in Journal Peer Review Research, Part 1 (1945–1989)
You would think that something as critical to science as peer review in journals would itself have a strong grounding…
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Peer review research roundup Trials At Last & Even More Questions: Milestones in Journal Peer Review Research, Part 2 (1990–2018)
The scientific community invests a huge amount of time into peer review at journals, and it’s critical to…
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Science Communication Signing Critical Peer Reviews & the Fear of Retaliation: What Should We Do?
There’s a sort of Godwin’s Law for discussions on open peer review. Sooner or later, someone’s going to say, “We can’t expect early…
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Science Communication Transparency, Recognition, & Innovation: The ASAPbio Peer Review Meeting
All those “Reviewer 2″s – can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em! So how can we improve both the…