peer review

https://scientistsarehumans.com/2018/11/08/kinder-peer-review/

Aaron E. Carroll: Peer Review: The Worst Way to Judge Research, Except for All the Others One way to detect problems with research earlier would be to let researchers post manuscripts online before submission, for public judgment before formal peer review. This is already common in some...

Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days Nature 561, 167-169 (2018) doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06185-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06185-8 (Full article. No paywall. PDF link.)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06602-y

This was an interesting read from representatives for the UK Wellcome Trust and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute about pros and cons concerning allowing peer reviews to be published. One argument they raise which I've never thought of is: Many benefits would accrue from publishing peer...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/71D73CADE32C0D3D996DABEA3FCDBF57/S0033291718001873a.pdf/cumulative_effect_of_reporting_and_citation_biases_on_the_apparent_efficacy_of_treatments_the_case_of_depression.pdf

Split from the twitter thread. Some discussion of the peer review of the PACE re-analysis article submitted to the BMJ starts from post #1745 of that thread. edit: I also want to point out that this review misrepresents a number of aspects of the paper. The paper submitted to the BMJ was later...

https://academic.oup.com/ije/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ije/dyy105/5032550

https://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/6/228027-effectiveness-of-anonymization-in-double-blind-review/fulltext

Considers COI as they relate to peer review, https://smallpondscience.com/2018/05/14/murky-matters-involving-conflicts-of-interest/amp

" Thank you to our reviewers 2017 Thank you to our reviewers http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-reviewers The Editor would like to publicly acknowledge the people listed below who served as reviewers on the journal during 2017. Without their efforts the quality of the journal could not be...

An article discussing the problems with peer review, focusing particularly on the biomedical field, the effect of the pressure to publish to gain career advancement, and a possible alternative approach...

http://andrewgelman.com/2018/01/13/solution-puzzle-scientists-typically-respond-legitimate-scientific-criticism-angry-defensive-closed-non-scientific-way/

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08289-z

No recent news article on this but thought given all the recent 'new treatments' popping up and dodgy research papers it is worth discussion. I found this interesting article from the Guardian (Sept 2011). Publish-or-perish: Peer review and the corruption of science | David Colquhoun "But it...