The use of quantitative performance indicators to measure quality in academic publishing
has undercut peer review's qualitative assessment of articles submitted to journals. The two …

To increase transparency in science, some scholarly journals are publishing peer review
reports. But it is unclear how this practice affects the peer review process. Here, we examine …

When organizations crowdsource ideas, they select only a small share of the ideas that
contributors submit for implementation. If a contributor submits an idea to an organization for …

There are long-standing concerns that peer review, which is foundational to scientific
institutions like journals and funding agencies, favors conservative ideas over novel ones …

Professional connections between the creators and evaluators of scientific work are
ubiquitous, and the possibility of bias ever-present. Although connections have been shown …

Digitization and the rise of Open Access publishing is an important recent development in
academic communication. The current publishing system involves challenges with cost …

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Transparency and accountability are keywords in corporate business, politics, and science.
As part of the open science movement, many journals have started to adopt forms of open …

This study examined the geographical diversity and publication patterns of editors and
editorial board members in communication journals. The results indicated that the diversity …

This article examines the evolution of peer review and the modern editorial processes of
scholarly journals by analyzing a novel data set derived from the Royal Society's archives …