The theme of Peer Review Week 2019 (September 16 – 20) was Quality in Peer Review and researchers and industry professionals the world over were talking about this theme. Quality of peer review is a broad theme. It includes Read More
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To coincide with this year’s Peer Review Week, Sense about Science, an independent charity working to promote honesty and integrity in science, has released the results of its Peer Review Survey 2019. The survey, conducted Read More
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For nearly 20 years as a teacher of English at the secondary school level, I don’t think I was ever bothered about peer review. In fact, it never came to mind. The few publications I Read More
If you believe the hype, peer review is flawed and corrupt, a broken system threatening to undermine the very foundations of academia… particularly science. From fake reviews to biased ones, one of the main arguments Read More
The academic publishing industry has been witnessing significant changes over the past two decades, with burgeoning numbers of submitted articles and multiple technological developments. But the process of getting published in top peer-reviewed journals has Read More
I had a dream that bothered me. In this dream, I found out that the journal editor had rejected my paper based on an algorithm. In my dream, I was incensed. It made me so Read More
Late last night, I was contemplating the theme of this year’s Peer Review Week – quality in peer review. As bits of conversations with colleagues and phrases from posts I’d read about peer review (Read More