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Between Science’s Secretive, Elitist Past and Open, Accessible Future

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 have converged to make possible an...

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Bias, Conflicts, Spin: The 8th Olympiad of Research on Science & Publishing...

  Once every 4 years editors, publishers, and meta-researchers assemble in Chicago for the Peer Review Congress – an intense researchfest about “enhancing the quality and credibility of science”. I’m...

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Good Enough? Editors, Statistics & Grant Peer Review

  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 the quality and...

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Innovations in Peer Review and Scientific Publishing

  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 the quality and...

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The Fractured Logic of Blinded Peer Review in Journals

  I get linked into a lot of thought-provoking debates about blinded peer review because of a post I wrote a couple of years ago. It’s kept me thinking and digging into research about bias in...

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Transparency, Recognition, & Innovation: The ASAPbio Peer Review Meeting

    All those “Reviewer 2″s – can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em! So how can we improve both the quality of “the scientific literature” and the role of peer review in it? ASAPbio has gathered...

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Signing Critical Peer Reviews & the Fear of Retaliation: What Should We Do?

  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 career researchers to sign peer reviews, because of fear of...

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Off to a Patchy Start: Milestones in Journal Peer Review Research, Part 1...

    You would think that something as critical to science as peer review in journals would itself have a strong grounding in science, wouldn’t you? But it doesn’t. The quantity of research is meagre,...

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Trials At Last & Even More Questions: Milestones in Journal Peer Review...

        The scientific community invests a huge amount of time into peer review at journals, and it’s critical to what we end up reading, and to scientists’ careers. Yet, as we saw in part 1, the...

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5 Things We Learned About Peer Review in 2019

    For something so fundamental to the practice of science, it’s perplexing that it took so long for serious research into editorial peer review to get off the ground. The earliest experimental study...

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