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Rethinking Peer Review: Exploring New Models for Collaboration

This blog post discusses the assumptions and effectiveness of traditional peer review and explores alternative methods for peer review and collaboration in research. It highlights the benefits of open peer review and the need for improved recognition and reward systems for reviewers. Join the conversation and help advance knowledge through innovative peer review practices.

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Rethinking Peer Review: Exploring New Models for Collaboration

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  1. Open Peer Review & Collaboration- by Heather Morrisonhttp://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

  2. Peer Review • An assumption based on tradition that needs to be tested? • Research questions: • How useful is peer review? • Are there better ways to do peer review? • Are there different ways to do peer review?

  3. How useful is peer review? • Some assurance of quality, particularly for the non-expert • 4 of 5 potential reviewers say no (one publisher) • Range of quality from very poor (nonsense syllables) to very thorough

  4. Is peer review always necessary? • Pharmacology / toxicology • What do bears eat? • Literary opinion • For the researcher’s career (why not review work as a whole instead?) • Research reports vs. review articles

  5. Are there better ways? • Open peer review model - a model & an invitation Elements: • Signed peer reviews • Open access peer reviews • Automated processes - e.g. reviewer profiles, calendars, selection of reviewers, tracking • Credit for reviewers http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2005/08/open-peer-review-model-invitation.html

  6. Open Peer Review - a Model • Goals: • research to improve peer review • science literacy • cost efficient • facilitate new / global collaboration

  7. Peer Review & Collaboration • Why wait? • Research funders: review before the grant! • Talk to your peers before you start the research! • Share your data

  8. Final thought… We advance knowledge by working together, by giving and accepting critical analysis and helpful suggestions. Those who do the work need to be appropriately acknowledged and rewarded. There are different, and better, ways to do all these things, than relying on a tradition based on factors that have changed.

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