Moving to the Mainstream | Research Information

"Rebecca Pool asks: was 2017 the year that scholarly publishing let in open peer review? Peer review forms the crux of good science, yet few would argue it works well. Ensuring research quality, tracking down competent reviewers and avoiding peer review manipulation are just a few of the problems that have left many in scholarly publishing searching for a new way. Enter open peer review; a transparent alternative that includes peer review reports being published alongside the research article. And from BioMed Central, PeerJ and F1000 Research to Springer Nature, Elsevier and The Royal Society, more and more publishers are taking part...."