PEER REVIEW BLOG What Can We Learn From The Creator Economy? The nonprofit sector is racing to tap into the creator economy, but here’s the truth: Our peer-to-peer fundraisers were the original influencers. Influencers aren’t just social media personalities. They’re the local news anchor, the well-connected business leader, the most popular mom on the soccer […]| Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […] The post Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding? appeared first on Social Science Space.| Social Science Space
We’re excited to announce the launch of our new, modular review workflow for datasets on PREreview.org! You can now review datasets on PREreview.org, beginning with those on Dryad!Since April, we’ve been working with community members to develop the first of our new review| PREreview Blog
Welcome back for another weekly product update from PREreview.org!| PREreview Blog
Our peer-reviewed journal and innovative editor-vetted Hub offer new ways to share research performed by, with, and for communities.| Eos
Today's guest bloggers reflect on the the LIBER Annual Conference in Lausanne (2–4 July). The post Guest Post — Reporting from LIBER 2025: Policy Influence, Library Agency, and Researcher-First Open Access Moves appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Nearly three years after ChatGPT’s debut, generative AI continues to reshape scholarly publishing. The sector has moved from experimentation toward integration, with advances in ethical writing tools, AI-driven discovery, summarization, and automated peer review. While workflows are becoming more efficient, the long-term impact on research creation and evaluation remains uncertain. The post Three Years After the Launch of ChatGPT, Do We Know Where This Is Heading? appeared first on The Scho...| The Scholarly Kitchen
In which occasional guest blogger Greg Crowther asks me a peer review question that stumps me – so together, we puzzle it out. Greg: Steve, I was recently reviewing some grant proposals for NSF when, amongst many other reasonable reviewing tips, we panelists were told to “avoid first person.” I have thoughts on this, but […]| Scientist Sees Squirrel
If science is to be both honest and healthy, we must accept that statistically non-significant results are part of reality. The SAMPL guidelines, if adopted widely by scholarly publishers and journal editors, hold a solution for authors who worry their results are not "significant." The post Guest Post — When Significance Hurts: What the SAMPL Guidelines Can Teach Us appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Every academic writer knows the sting of a harsh review. Every one. Including me. We’ve all had them. The review that is scathing, brutal and toxic. The immediate impulse is often to fire back defensively, ignore the review completely, or let it consume your thoughts for days. But there’s a third option that can be […]| patter
AI has opened a new chapter in the saga of science and peer review. Today, guest author Prof. Nihar B. Shah explains how, if guided with integrity, AI can open galaxies of possibilities.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Today, we talk to thought leaders Helen King and Chris Leonard, who offer a nuanced look at how peer review might adapt, fracture, or reinvent itself in the AI era.| The Scholarly Kitchen
One editor's tips on structure, content, and depth to help you produce more powerful and effective peer reviewer reports.| Advanced Science News
The future of peer review isn’t about choosing between humans and AI, or between speed and quality, but about combining the strengths of both to enable speed with quality, to ensure quality, ethics, and trust in the scholarly record.| The Scholarly Kitchen
To kick off Peer Review Week, we asked the Chefs, What’s a bold experiment with AI in peer review you’d like to see tested?| The Scholarly Kitchen
Summing up the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Forum discussion on Emerging AI Dilemmas in Scholarly Publishing, which explored the many challenges AI presents for the scholarly community.| The Scholarly Kitchen
PEER REVIEW BLOG P2P Professional Forum Acquired By Fundraising Expert Marcie Maxwell The Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum, the nation’s most prominent resource for nonprofit leaders who run participant-driven fundraising programs, has been acquired by industry veteran Marcie Maxwell of The Fundraising Forum Group, LLC. Maxwell, who has played a leading role in managing the Peer-to-Peer Professional […]| Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum
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
"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
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 …| 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| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
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
How does the Directory of Open Access Books navigate challenges to instill trust and transparency. Part 1 of 2.| The Scholarly Kitchen
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
