How is your discipline tracking in open peer review? | Nature Index
peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-07-12
Summary:
"Medical and health sciences journals are leading the way in the adoption of open peer review, a new study has found.
Open peer review, which involves publishing peer review reports and reviewer identities alongside journal articles, has been gaining traction over the last two decades as a way of tackling recognized problems in the traditional peer review process, such as lack of transparency and accountability.
In an analysis of 617 open peer review journals – defined as those that have published peer review reports and reviewer identities alongside at least one article - medical and health sciences journals accounted for almost half (42%).
Natural sciences journals followed, accounting for 38%...."