The peer review process: past, present, and future

JA Drozdz, MR Ladomery - British Journal of Biomedical …, 2024 - frontierspartnerships.org
The peer review process is a fundamental aspect of modern scientific paper publishing,
underpinning essential quality control. First conceptualised in the 1700s, it is an iterative …

Pandemic publishing: Medical journals strongly speed up their publication process for COVID-19

SPJM Horbach - Quantitative science studies, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
In times of public crises, including the current COVID-19 pandemic, rapid dissemination of
relevant scientific knowledge is of paramount importance. The duration of scholarly journals' …

Learning from published project failures in conservation

AS Catalano, J Lyons-White, MM Mills, AT Knight - Biological Conservation, 2019 - Elsevier
Conservation professionals need to know what has worked and what has not when
designing, implementing, evaluating and refining conservation projects. Project failure …

Segmented worms (Phylum Annelida): a celebration of twenty years of progress through Zootaxa and call for action on the taxonomic work that remains

WF Magalhaes, P Hutchings… - …, 2021 - researchers.mq.edu.au
Zootaxa has been the leading journal on invertebrate systematics especially within
Annelida. Our current estimates indicate annelids include approximately 20,200 valid …

No time for that now! Qualitative changes in manuscript peer review during the Covid-19 pandemic

SPJM Horbach - Research Evaluation, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The global Covid-19 pandemic has had a considerable impact on the scientific enterprise,
including scholarly publication and peer-review practices. Several studies have assessed …

Factors affecting time to publication in information science

Z Taşkın, A Taşkın, G Doğan, E Kulczycki - Scientometrics, 2022 - Springer
Publication speed is one of the important aspects of scholarly communication since various
research performance evaluation systems are based mostly on published papers. This study …

Reducing publication delay to improve the efficiency and impact of conservation science

AP Christie, TB White, PA Martin, SO Petrovan… - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Evidence-based decision-making is most effective with comprehensive access to scientific
studies. If studies face significant publication delays or barriers, the useful information they …

Open Editors: A dataset of scholarly journals' editorial board positions

A Nishikawa-Pacher, T Heck, K Schoch - Research Evaluation, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Editormetrics analyses the role of editors of academic journals and their impact on the
scientific publication system. Such analyses would best rely on open, structured, and …

Trade-off between urgency and reduced editorial capacity affect publication speed in ecological and medical journals during 2020

LR Forti, LA Solino, JK Szabo - Humanities and Social Sciences …, 2021 - nature.com
While the speed of publication in academic journals has decreased over time, delays in the
review process can still cause frustration and damage the authors' career. During the COVID …

Understanding delays in publishing interdisciplinary research

Y Zhang, Y Wang - Information Processing & Management, 2024 - Elsevier
With the growing prominence of interdisciplinary research and heightened concerns
surrounding extended prepublication timelines, we still lack of understanding regarding the …