The fragile state of peer review: Can open science fix the system?

"Peer review is the foundation on which the scientific world is built. However, it’s a flawed process, as proved by a number of controversial publications. Is it time for change? ‘We don’t even know if it works at all.’

[...] Open science is not just about making papers publicly available through open access; it also advocates for more transparency in peer review – disclosing identities, publishing reviewer comments, and enabling public commenting after publication – and proposes open data sets and consequences for scientific dishonesty..."