The scientific community invests a huge amount of time into peer review at journals, and it’s critical to what we end up…
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Peer review research roundup Trials At Last & Even More Questions: Milestones in Journal Peer Review Research, Part 2 (1990–2018)Read more
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Science Communication Signing Critical Peer Reviews & the Fear of Retaliation: What Should We Do?Read more
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 MeetingRead more
All those “Reviewer 2″s – can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em! So how can we improve both the quality of…
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Bias The Fractured Logic of Blinded Peer Review in JournalsRead more
I get linked into a lot of thought-provoking debates about blinded peer review because of a post I wrote a couple…
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Science Communication Innovations in Peer Review and Scientific PublishingRead more
Over 500 science journal editors, publishers, and meta-researchers are gathered in Chicago for the 8th Peer Review Congress (#PRC8), a once-every-4-years researchfest about “enhancing…
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Science Communication Good Enough? Editors, Statistics & Grant Peer ReviewRead more
Over 500 science journal editors, publishers, and meta-researchers are gathered in Chicago for the 8th Peer Review Congress (#PRC8), a once-every-4-years researchfest…
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Science Communication Bias, Conflicts, Spin: The 8th Olympiad of Research on Science & Publishing BeginsRead more
Once every 4 years editors, publishers, and meta-researchers assemble in Chicago for the Peer Review Congress – an intense researchfest about “enhancing the…
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Listicles Between Science’s Secretive, Elitist Past and Open, Accessible FutureRead more
Editor’s note: Read Hilda’s October 26, 2016 @redditscience conversation on Open Access in Action here plos.io/OAweek16AMA An old tradition and a new technology…
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Listicles Flying Flak and Avoiding “ad hominem” ResponseRead more
It was easy to work out where I stood in a fairly recent outburst of name-calling from one of the pillars of…
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Bias A Reader’s Guide to Conflicts of Interest in BiomedicineRead more
The academic clinician in this cartoon needs 15 slides to list all the drug and device manufacturers he’s received money from recently…
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Bias Weighing Up Anonymity and Openness in Publication Peer ReviewRead more
Scientists are in a real bind when it comes to peer review. It’s hard to be objective when we’re all among the peer reviewing…
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History Peer Review BC (Before Citations)Read more
In theory, science isn’t just self-interested. We’re all driven by curiosity and pure motives to strive together to unlock the secrets of the universe and…