PEER REVIEWING DATA AND SOFTWARE: A PILOT PROJECT

Abstract:  In late 2021, the Research Data Services and TU Delft OPEN Publishing teams (both based at the TU Delft Library) discussed a potential initiative towards promoting data peer review within TU Delft. The project stemmed from identifying gaps in the research and peer review process, namely – the lack of recognition of data as a valuable research output in itself, and how to introduce incentives that could encourage both the publication and peer review of datasets by researchers. As academic outputs become increasingly diverse, with datasets and data description papers becoming common research outputs, peer review too must expand beyond the review of articles and books.