As a process that validates information credibility, peer review is undeniably and incredibly valuable—when it works. But sometimes it doesn’t work as well as we’d like. The post Reviewing peer review first appeared on ACRLog.| ACRLog
In the last few years, scholarly publishing has entered a period of rapid acceleration. Leading publishers have reported double-digit percentage increases in manuscript submissions, a surge that translates to millions of additional papers entering editorial workflows annually. On the surface, this growth is good news: it reflects the expanding global research output and a democratization […] The post Managing Manuscript Growth Without Overloading Peer Review appeared first on Integra.| Integra
As readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY may recall, I am guest editing a special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches,” which will commemorate the one hundred-year anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Late in September, I will begin to receive the […]| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
"Current dissatisfaction with peer review is such an opportunity for change, so we call for taking advantage of this opportunity as fully as we can. We build our recommendations on the idea that mutual critical engagement is a skill developed through ongoing practice and actual engagement with each other’s ideas." In the following guest post,| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
PEER REVIEW BLOG The Overlooked Link Between P2P and Major Gifts Is your organization placing a renewed emphasis on major gift fundraising? Are you wondering what this means for your peer-to-peer campaigns? With the right strategy and a true sense of collaboration, major gifts and P2P fundraising can enjoy a mutually beneficial relationship, making both […] The post The Overlooked Link Between P2P and Major Gifts appeared first on Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum.| Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum
PEER REVIEW BLOG Can Transactional Giving Be Transformational? The nonprofit world has long debated transactional versus transformational giving, but what if they can work hand in hand, especially in peer-to-peer fundraising? Consider the power of specific asks: “$75 to cover a therapy session,” “$200 to fund a week of meals for a family,” or “$500 […] The post Can Transactional Giving Be Transformational? appeared first on Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum.| Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum
PEER REVIEW BLOG How To Navigate Funding Cuts With Your P2P Community There’s no sugarcoating the fact that recent changes to the federal budget present real challenges for many of our organizations and the missions we serve. But, like a natural disaster, moments like these can also galvanize our communities. They can spark new levels […] The post How To Navigate Funding Cuts With Your P2P Community appeared first on Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum.| Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum
PEER REVIEW BLOG What Gen Z Staff Really Want From You The P2P fundraising world has spent years preparing for Gen Z participants, but are we adapting to the needs of our Gen Z staff> This generation entered the workforce during the pandemic, often starting careers remotely and missing the in-person relationship-building that defines many […] The post What Gen Z Staff Really Want From You appeared first on Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum.| Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum
PEER REVIEW BLOG Is Your P2P Goal A Moving Target? If you’ve been feeling like you’re trying to build a P2P budget or upcoming campaign strategy on shifting sand, you’re not alone. Between federal funding cuts, new tariff pressures and health policy crises, the nonprofit sector is facing a perfect storm of uncertainty. The question […]| Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum
I have been a bit obsessed with my discovery that a long standing CSR convened study section went through a bad spell. From 2020-2022, NIH funded only seven new (Type 1) R01 per year that were reviewed in this study section. This was a substantial decline from the 22 and 20 grants funded in the […]| DrugMonkey
I was recently pondering the relative funding rates for amended (aka revised) NIH grant proposals, something I haven’t thought about much in years. It used to be quite a theme around here. I got a little pushback from longtime blog friend qaz who laments the passing of Ye Olde Halcyonne Dayes in which the revision […]| DrugMonkey
“We do not publish any work advancing views that are clearly contrary to the established teachings of the Catholic Church.” That’s in the submission guidelines for the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (NCBQ). Also in those submission guidelines: The NCBQ seeks to foster intellectual inquiry on moral issues by publishing articles that address the ethical, philosophical, theological, and clinical questions raised by the rapid pace of modern medical and technological progress. Inspi...| Daily Nous
COARA (Coalition for advancing research assessment) ha adottato una modalità di lavoro basata su gruppi di lavoro tematici. Quasi tutti hanno già cominciato a produrre documenti o linee guida e il gruppo Recognizing an rewarding peer review ha appena pubblicato il documento Recognizing and Rewarding Peer Review of Scholarly Articles, Books, and Funding Proposals: Recommendations …| Open Science @Unimi
Guest blogger Hema Thakur shares results of her experiment using AI to improve the accessibility of peer review feedback -- her findings may concern you!| The Scholarly Kitchen
I guess many readers will have had peer reviews where the reviewer doesn't appear to have understood, or even properly read, the paper they...| deevybee.blogspot.com
Guest blogger, Ashutosh Ghildiyal, asks: Is AI for us, or are we for AI? In the all-important context of peer review, can we leverage AI to amplify human thought rather than replace us?| The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington digs into the world of preprints. He uses the field of mathematics to explore how an inclusive view of preprints and published articles leads to a research ecosystem that is greater than the sum of the parts.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Comprehensive Peer Review Management. Peer review remains the foundation of research integrity, but the ecosystem evolving rapidly| Integra
Three Scholarly Kitchen Chefs report on the recent European Association of Science Editors (EASE) Conference (Oslo, May 14-16).| The Scholarly Kitchen
From now on, "new submissions of manuscripts that are published as research articles in Nature will automatically include a link to the reviewers’ reports and author responses." The identity of the reviewers will not be revealed, unless the reviewers themselves choose otherwise. For several years, authors at Nature have had the option to have the peer-review file| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
We are pleased to announce the official theme for Peer Review Week 2025, to be held from 15–19 September 2025.| The Scholarly Kitchen
How does the Directory of Open Access Books navigate challenges to instill trust and transparency. Part 1 of 2.| The Scholarly Kitchen
A comprehensive starting point for performing post-publication peer review.| Reese Richardson
The analysis of operational data is complex, dull, and unrewarding. It is also necessary. Three case studies of major journals and portfolios explain why.| The Scholarly Kitchen
The most vital and enduring contribution of scholarly publishers is their role as gatekeepers — not as obstacles to knowledge but as stewards of quality, integrity, and trust.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Science is built on a foundation of rigor and credibility. Preprints are adding to the crumbling of that foundation, which is already under attack by anti-science political agendas.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Image integrity has been a growing issue in scholarly publishing. Todd Carpenter suggests we addreess the problem of image integrity at scale| The Scholarly Kitchen
In a publish-or-perish system of scientific communication, large numbers of articles are written and submitted to journals. Editors face the...| researchpracticesandtools.blogspot.com
Welcome back for another product update from PREreview.org!| PREreview Blog
In January 2023, the journal eLife – long at the vanguard of the progressive movement in scientific publishing – took the radical step of adopting a “publish, review. curate” model. Her…| Total Internal Reflection
For any central statistical analysis that you report in your manuscript, it should be absolutely clear for readers why the analysis is being conducted in the first place – that is, the analysis goal should be transparently communicated. A helpful concept here is the so-called theoretical estimand, t| The 100% CI
Many publishers are getting nervous about infiltration by paper mills, who can torpedo a journal's reputation when they succeed in publishing papers that are obvious nonsense. In a recent Open Letter, a group of sleuths drew attention to an example in Scientific Reports, published by Springer Nature. | BishopBlog
It's always interesting for a blogger to look back to see which posts have garnered most attention. In 2024 there were three standout items, my resignation from the Royal Society, an Open Letter about editorial failings at the journal Scientific Reports, and a guest post by René Aquarius about his experiences as a reviewer for MDPI. For each of these blogposts, it's interesting to consider not just the number of hits, but also the broader impact. Blogging is a great way to let off steam, ...| BishopBlog
It's been an odd week for the academic publisher MDPI. On 16th December, Finland's Publication Forum (known as JUFO) announced that from January 2025 it was downgrading its classification of 271 open access journals to the lowest level, zero. | BishopBlog
There's been a fair bit of discussion about Clarivate's decision to pause inclusion of eLife publications on the Science Citation Index (e.g. on Research Professional). What I find exasperating is that most of the discussion focuses on a single consequence - loss of eLife's impact factor. For authors, there are graver consequences. | BishopBlog
Like many academics, I was interested to see an announcement| BishopBlog
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"Here's one for you", said my husband, as he browsed| BishopBlog
I've just been sent an email from eLife, pointing me to links to a report called "eLife's New Model: One year on" and a report by the editors "Scientific Publishing: The first year of a new era". To remind readers who may have missed it, the big change introduced by eLife in 2023 was to drop the step where an editor decides on reject or accept of a manuscript after reviewer comments are received. Instead, the author submits a preprint, and the editors then decide whether it should be reviewe...| BishopBlog
By Paola Galimberti The editorial note recently published in JASSS (Squazzoni 2025) focuses on the central role of peer review, an issue that has now become central to the debate on scholarly commu…| Review of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
NARIC’s Research In Focus series highlights new and interesting findings from NIDILRR-funded studies, presented in lay language summaries. The series covers a wide array of topics, and aims to present peer-reviewed research in readable formats, so our readers can learn … Continue reading →| Collection Spotlight from the National Rehabilitation Information Center
Several publishers have policies that say that a manuscript rejected by one of its journals may be referred to another of its journals. At Wiley, referee reports are transferred along with the manuscript. Here's its policy: Such manuscripts and their peer review reports will be transferred to the receiving journal to expedite any further evaluation| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Self-archiving on personal sites is perfectly permitted under many journal data policies. But what happens when an author alters the underlying data?| The Scholarly Kitchen
BMJ's Medical Humanities Editor-in-Chief Brandy Schillace reflects on changes in publishing that are making important work harder to do.| The Scholarly Kitchen
For today's Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Stephanie Dawson, CEO of ScienceOpen, about her thoughts on and experience of research infrastructure, as the leader of an organization working in this space.| The Scholarly Kitchen
What is the Forensic Scientometrics Declaration, and how did it come about?| The Scholarly Kitchen
In The Anxious Generation, Jon Haidt argues that social media is driving a mental health crisis among teens. It's a compelling thesis, widely discussed in the media, mostly accepted by my students and even by me—for a while. I felt I owed this book a read given that this is a topic many of my studen| The 100% CI
Download PDF Please see PDF for images and/or Appendices Introduction This article illustrates how peer review-focused learning tasks and activities helped multilingual students in an online English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course develop a sense of community and take ownership of their learning while also enhancing their writing, critical thinking, and research skills. Informed by the pedagogical frameworks of community of practice/inquiry (Peacock & Cowan, 2019; Wenger et al., 2002), con...| Contact
Maybe you're among those who are hoping for drastic changes to the practices and norms of reviewing manuscripts for publication in philosophy journals. - But if you thought it took too long for that journal to get back to you with a decision on your last paper, well, that was nothing compared to how long| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
At times, effective altruists show strong regard for scientific, scholarly and journalistic authority. But sometimes they do not.| Reflective altruism
A review article with some obviously fake and non-scientific illustrations created by Artificial Intelligence (AI) was the talk on X (Twitter) today. The figures in the paper were generated by the …| Science Integrity Digest
By Susan Carter Doctoral peer review of each other’s writing is something that we discuss from time to time on …Continue reading →| DoctoralWriting
(A PDF version of this post is available on HAL.)| Research Practices and Tools
The main thrust of my reflections in “The Contemporary Research University: Freedom and Force” (2024) can be summarized as follows. The epistemological intuition behind the justification for academic autonomy for faculty offered in Hormio and Reijula’s “Universities as Anarchic Knowledge Institutions” (2023) is sound: “as a rule, plurality of thought is more likely to generate new ideas and solutions than cognitive monism” (Rider 2024). In my critical remarks, however, I implici...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
What are the new directions in scholarly publishing? Check out the unique "reverse roundtable" discussions at SSP's New Directions seminar!| The Scholarly Kitchen
Way back in 2015 the NIH made some major changes to the Biosketch. As detailed in this post, one of the major changes was replacing the long list of publications with a “contribution to scien…| DrugMonkey
Why does it matter whether research studies have undergone peer review? What is peer review? We outline five things journalists should know.| The Journalist's Resource
Traditional journal clubs are present in most labs and departments bringing together early career researchers to discuss and review a chosen article. These groups effectively perform peer review but often don't share the comments with the authors. This year ASAPbio is launching a fund to support current journal clubs in performing (and sharing) peer reviews…| ASAPbio
Like Tilman Borgers I believe that all behavioral economics and social psychology books should be housed in the self-help section of the bookstore. Indeed, Tilman tells me, that when bookstores exi…| The Leisure of the Theory Class
