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The evolution of peer review: e-developments. Tony Delamothe. EASE meeting 11 June 2003. http://bmj.com/talks. Peer review. Current model Its contingency on paper How it’s changing. Peer review: current model. pre-publication peer review. post-publication peer review.
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The evolution of peer review: e-developments Tony Delamothe EASE meeting 11 June 2003 http://bmj.com/talks
Peer review • Current model • Its contingency on paper • How it’s changing
Peer review: current model pre-publication peer review post-publication peer review ms R R R
How peer review is changing • Post-publication peer review • Pre-publication peer review • Introducing greater transparency • Changing the process • Abandoning the process
Facilitating post-publication peer review pre-publication peer review post-publication peer review ms R R R
Introducing greater transparency pre-publication peer review post-publication peer review ms R R R
At the moment of publication….. pre-publication peer review post-publication peer review ms
Introducing greater transparency (BMJ study) • Originally submitted manuscript • Peer review report(s) • Editorial committee’s deliberations • Statistician’s report • Authors’ covering letter with resubmitted manuscript [all signed]
Changing the process: Med J Aus (1) pre-publication peer review ms
Changing the process: Med J Aus (2), JIME pre-publication peer review ms
Changing the process: ETAI, ACP pre-publication peer review ms
Changing the process: the story so far • Low participation rates • Peer review still has a binary outcome – primacy of final publication remains
Abandoning the process • arXiv • Cogprints (Institutional repositories/open archive movement)
Resources (1) • Craig Bingham’s chapter in Peer Review in Health Sciences, BMJ Books: 1999 (new edition out later this year) • Gura T. Scientific publishing: Peer review, unmasked. Nature 2002;416:258-260 • Delamothe T, Smith R. Twenty thousand conversations. BMJ 2002;324:1171-2. • Bingham C and others. Med J Aust internet peer-review study. Lancet 1998: 352: 441-5
Resources (2) • Med J Aus (second protocol) http://www.mja.com.au/public/information/iprs2bod.html • JIME (Journal of Interactive Media in Education) http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/about.html#lifecycle • ETAI (Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence) http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/ • arXiv http://arXiv.org/blurb/pg02pr.html