Decoupling peer review from publishing - Green Tea and Velociraptors

ab1630's bookmarks 2018-02-21

Summary:

"This is adapted from our recent paper in F1000 Research, entitled “A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review.” Due to its rather monstrous length, I’ll be posting chunks of the text here in sequence over the next few weeks to help disseminate it in more easily digestible bites. Enjoy! This section describes some of the recent initiatives designed to decouple peer review from the journal publishing process itself. ...

One proposal to transform scholarly publishing is to decouple the concept of the journal and its functions (e.g., archiving, registration and dissemination) from peer review and the certification that this provides. Some even regard this decoupling process as the “paradigm shift” that scholarly publishing needs (Priem & Hemminger, 2012). Some publishers, journals, and platforms are now taking a more adventurous exploration of peer review that occurs subsequent to publication (Figure 3). Here, the principle is that all research deserves the opportunity to be published (usually pending some form of initial editorial selectivity), and that filtering through peer review occurs subsequent to the actual communication of research articles (i.e., a publish then filter process). This is often termed “post-publication peer review,” a confusing terminology based on what constitutes “publication” in the digital age, depending on whether it occurs on manuscripts that have been previously peer reviewed or not (blogs.openaire.eu/?p=1205), and a persistent academic view that published equals peer reviewed. Numerous venues now provide inbuilt systems for post-publication peer review, including RIO, PubPub, ScienceOpen, The Winnower, and F1000 Research. Some European Geophysical Union journals hosted on Copernicus offer a hybrid model with initial discussion papers receiving open peer review and comments and then selected papers accepted as final publications, which they term ‘Interactive Public Peer Review’ (publications.copernicus.org/services/public_peer_review.html). Here, review reports are posted alongside published manuscripts, with an option for reviewers to reveal their identity should they wish (Pöschl, 2012). In addition to the systems adopted by journals, other post-publication annotation and commenting services exist independent of any specific journal or publisher and operating across platforms, such as hypothes.is, PaperHive, and PubPeer...."

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http://fossilsandshit.com/14-decoupling-peer-review-publishing/

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Date tagged:

02/21/2018, 17:19

Date published:

02/21/2018, 12:19