Peer-Review for a Blog Post? My Experience with MetaROR

"A few months back, Upstream editor Martin Fenner suggested that I submit my Upstream blog post titled, Drinking from the Firehose? Write More and Publish Less, for peer-review as a sort of experiment for Upstream through MetaROR. MetaROR, a relative newcomer to the scholarly communication community, provides the review and curate steps in the "publish-review-curate" model for meta-research.

While I do not consider myself a meta-researcher (scholars who conduct research on research) many of my positions on science policy have implications on the field (especially, those on transparency, openness, and reproducibility). I think the main call in my blog post for reform in scholarly communication – namely, to stop publishing in traditional journals as much and start rewarding a broader swath of scholarly activities like data sharing – is particularly appealing to meta-researchers who rely on non-publication outputs for their work. So, I submitted. The article was openly reviewed, and MetaROR provided an editorial assessment. Here, I reply to the reviewers and contribute to the curation of the original post...."