peer review

Special issue in scientific journals focus on a particular topic and often have guest editors. They might provide an opportunity to publish papers on things that usually aren't popular or don't get much attention. There was, for example, a special issue in the journal Healthcare (MDPI) on...

The “conclusions” Full Article: https://theconversation.com/the-peer-review-system-no-longer-works-to-guarantee-academic-rigour-a-different-approach-is-needed-244092

The Preprint Club - A cross-institutional, community-based approach to peer reviewing Felix Clemens Richter, Ester Gea-Mallorquí, Nicolas Ruffin, Nicolas Vabret The academic community has been increasingly using preprints to disseminate their latest research findings quickly and openly. This...

Blog article: Primary Endpoints Begone Good Faith: Editorial Review Isn’t Working; Fixing It Means Disposing With the Secrecy Alexander Trevelyan It must’ve been late 2013—my labmates and I, along with our advisor, were debating the upshot of an article in Science called Who's Afraid of Peer...

https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review The rise and fall of peer review Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing Adam Mastroianni Dec 13 “For the last 60 years or so, science has been running an experiment on...

Not new but thought it might be of interest. (the Peer Review report is also available , one of the reviewers is Chew-Graham) Abstract Background Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) can cause profound and prolonged illness and disability, and poses significant problems...

I came across this tweet - which is a public tweet, and the thread it comes from is public too - no Twitter account required to read it : which was referring to this article : https://elemental.medium.com/the-absurdity-of-peer-review-1d58e5d9e661

https://www.coyneoftherealm.com/2017/04/26/should-the-bmj-silence-authors-who-were-abused-by-a-reviewer/ This came out before this forum was set up. I thought there might be somebody here who hadn't seen it before and might find it of interest.

https://publons.com/blog/how-to-write-a-peer-review-12-things-you-need-to-know/

https://publons.com/blog/6-common-research-flaws-to-watch-out-for-in-peer-review/

I thought it might be useful to group our discussions and comments on academic publishing. This includes the role of scientific journals, the relevance of peer review, the use of preprints etc. I thought this comment on Twitter was interesting:

https://blogs.plos.org/absolutely-maybe/2019/12/31/5-things-we-learned-about-peer-review-in-2019/

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03759-y My bolding above. Hmm, I wonder which journals that reminds me of... Lancet and BMJ anyone?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02639-9

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/why-we-shouldnt-take-peer-review-as-the-gold-standard/2019/08/01/fd90749a-b229-11e9-8949-5f36ff92706e_story.html

eta:hmm, maybe he draws a magic circle and says stop?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00500-7

Interesting spotlight on Lancet procedures in another area:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/where-are-ethics-academic-publishing

There's an interesting bit at about 2020 where they are talking about problems with peer review, e.g. things slipping past reviewers which shouldn't. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001b1k Presenting his first programme for Radio 4, the evolutionary biologist, author and former Professor...