Back in 2019 I wrote a couple of posts summarizing what we had learned from research about peer review at journals. Since…
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Listicles 5 Things We Learned About Journal Peer Review in 2025Read more
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Listicles 5 Things We Learned About Peer Review in 2024Read more
Back in 2019 I wrote a couple of posts summarizing what we had learned from research about peer review at journals. Since…
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Listicles 5 Things We Learned About Peer Review in 2023Read more
This is my fifth annual research roundup about journal peer review. And we’re only averaging about one randomized trial a year. This…
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Bias Unpacking the Biggest Trial Yet of Naming Authors in Peer ReviewRead more
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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Peer review research roundup 5 Things We Learned About Journal Peer Review in 2022Read more
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 BlockRead more
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 2021Read more
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 EditionRead more
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 2020Read more
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 PreprintsRead more
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 2019Read more
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)Read more
You would think that something as critical to science as peer review in journals would itself have a strong grounding…