Waltman, L., Kaltenbrunner, W., Pinfield, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-4696-764X et al. (1 more author) (2023) How to improve scientific peer review: four schools of thought. Learned Publishing, 36 (3). pp. 334-347. ISSN 0953-1513
Abstract
Peer review plays an essential role as one of the cornerstones of the scholarly publishing system. There are many initiatives that aim to improve the way in which peer review is organized, resulting in a highly complex landscape of innovation in peer review. Different initiatives are based on different views on the most urgent challenges faced by the peer review system, leading to a diversity of perspectives on how the system can be improved. To provide a more systematic understanding of the landscape of innovation in peer review, we suggest that the landscape is shaped by four schools of thought: The Quality & Reproducibility school, the Democracy & Transparency school, the Equity & Inclusion school, and the Efficiency & Incentives school. Each school has a different view on the key problems of the peer review system and the innovations necessary to address these problems. The schools partly complement each other, but we argue that there are also important tensions between them. We hope that the four schools of thought offer a useful framework to facilitate conversations about the future development of the peer review system.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors. Learned Publishing published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of ALPSP. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | innovation; peer review; scholarly publishing; school of thought |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number WELLCOME TRUST (THE) 224707/Z/21/Z |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 18 Apr 2023 10:56 |
Last Modified: | 03 Oct 2024 08:53 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/leap.1544 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:197990 |
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