Impact of Social Sciences – Breaking the traditional mould of peer review: Why we need a more transparent process of research evaluation.
abernard102@gmail.com 2016-03-20
Summary:
"Jon Tennant takes a look at the transformations underway aimed at tackling the widespread dissatisfaction with the system of peer review. He provides further background on the platform ScienceOpen, which seeks to enable a process of transparent, self-regulating, peer review, where knowledge sharing is encouraged, valued, and rewarded. By adopting a more transparent process of research evaluation, we move one step closer towards a fairer and democratic research process ..."