Woods, H.B. orcid.org/0000-0002-0653-9803, Brumberg, J., Kaltenbrunner, W. et al. (2 more authors) (2022) Innovations in peer review in scholarly publishing: a meta-summary [version 1; under peer-review]. Wellcome Open Research, 7. 82. ISSN 2398-502X
Abstract
Background: There are currently numerous innovations in peer review and quality assurance in scholarly publishing. The Research on Research Institute conducted a programme of co-produced projects investigating these innovations. This literature review was part of one such project ‘Experiments in peer review’ which created an inventory and framework of peer review innovations. The aim of this literature review was to aid the development of the inventory by identifying innovations in peer review reported in the scholarly literature and by providing a summary of the different approaches.
Methods: This meta-summary is based on data identified from Web of Science and Scopus limited from 2010 to 2021. A total of 247 papers were screened, with 6 review articles chosen for the focus of the literature review. Items were selected that described approaches to innovating peer review or illustrated examples.
Results: The summary of innovations are drawn from 6 review articles. The innovations are divided into three high-level categories: approaches to peer review, reviewer focussed initiatives and technology to support peer review with sub-categories of results presented in tabular form and summarised. A summary of all innovations found is also presented.
Conclusions: From a simple synthesis of the review authors’ conclusions, three key messages are presented: observations on current practice; authors’ views on the implications of innovations in peer review; and calls for action in peer review research and practice.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | peer review; scholarly publishing; innovation; meta-summary; review of reviews |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Health and Related Research (Sheffield) > ScHARR - Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 May 2022 13:37 |
Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2024 14:10 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | F1000 Research Ltd |
Identification Number: | 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17715.1 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:186453 |
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