Peer review of research articles is a core part of our scholarly communication system. In
spite of its importance, the status and purpose of peer review is often contested. What is its …

Background A strong need exists for a validated tool that clearly defines peer review report
quality in biomedical research, as it will allow evaluating interventions aimed at improving …

Scientific publication and its Peer Review system strongly rely on a few major industry
players controlling most journals (eg Elsevier), databases (eg Scopus) and metrics (eg JCR …

Delays in peer reviewed publication may have consequences for both assessment of
scientific prowess in academia as well as communication of important information to the …

Background Our aim is to highlight the benefits and limitations of open and non-anonymized
peer review. Our argument is based on the literature and on responses to a survey on the …

In this paper we conduct a validation study on the factors affecting the practice modes of
open peer review. Taking the Open Access Journals (OAJ) in Directory of Open Access …

Context: Pre-publication peer review of scientific articles is considered a key element of the
research process in software engineering, yet it is often perceived as not to work fully well …

New models of scientific publishing and new ways of practicing peer review have injected a
recent dynamism into the scholarly communication system. In this article, we delineate the …

Research science used to inform public policy decisions, herein defined as “Policy-Science”,
is rarely subjected to rigorous checking, testing and replication. Studies of biomedical and …

[目的] 引入透明性同行评议这一新兴概念, 对其边界进行界定, 并建构相应的发展框架,
提出实践对策.[方法] 使用案例分析和文献搜集的方法, 总结透明性同行评议的特点 …