76: Open peer review

Published: Jan. 21, 2019, 7 a.m.

Peer review is typically conducted behind closed doors. There's been a recent push to make open peer review standard, but what's often left out of these conversations are the potential downsides. To illustrate this, Dan and James discuss a recent instance of open peer review that led to considerable online debate.

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Here's what they cover...

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  • How should we navigate the open review of preprints?
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  • Gate keepers gonna gate keep, but is this better out in the open?
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  • Weaponising openness
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  • Some people don't realise that some data can\u2019t be shared
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  • Should the reviewers of rejected papers follow them to the next journal?
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  • When bad papers that you reject pop up in another journal, unchanged
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  • Does the venue and timing of the open peer review matter?
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  • Signing your reviews
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  • Using publons to track your reviews
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Links

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Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/

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