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Linguistics
Alexandra D'Arcy, Joseph Salmons
Summary: This paper presents new data on peer review practices in linguistics journals, aiming to enhance understanding of the peer review process for editors, authors, reviewers, and readers. The goal is to demystify the process, particularly for graduate students and early career researchers, and make it less stressful. It also aims to promote further discussion and development of field-wide standards.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Misha Teplitskiy, Hao Peng, Andrea Blasco, Karim R. Lakhani
Summary: This study investigates the association between novelty and manuscript acceptance, finding that higher novelty is consistently associated with higher acceptance. Disagreement among peer reviewers was not related to novelty or conventionality, and editors tend to select manuscripts with higher novelty. This challenges the perception that peer review is inherently resistant to novelty.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Flaminio Squazzoni, Giangiacomo Bravo, Mike Farjam, Ana Marusic, Bahar Mehmani, Michael Willis, Aliaksandr Birukou, Pierpaolo Dondio, Francisco Grimaldo
Summary: This study analyzed gender bias in 145 journals and found that manuscripts written by women as solo authors or coauthored by women were treated more favorably by referees and editors. The results suggest that peer review and editorial processes do not penalize manuscripts by women, and increasing gender diversity in editorial teams and referee pools could help encourage more women to participate.
Review
Business
Weng Marc Lim
Summary: Peer review should be proactively used by premier journals to promote high-quality scholarly work. This article addresses the expectation-confirmation gap in peer reviewing and offers guiding principles and a template for reviewers to deliver high-quality feedback. The aim is to encourage constructive and developmental reviews in premier journals.
INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Yangyang Wu, Changsong Jiang, Chunxiang Xu, Kefei Chen
Summary: The research reveals that the path validation scheme with constant-size proof is not unforgeable, as adversaries can forge valid proofs with a significant probability.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Maria Reinius, Pamela Mazzocato, Sara Riggare, Ami Bylund, Hanna Jansson, John Ovretveit, Carl Savage, Carolina Wannheden, Henna Hasson
Summary: The number of peer-reviewed publications on patient-driven innovations is increasing, with a focus on high-income countries. The "Do-It-Yourself Artificial Pancreas System" and the online health network "PatientsLikeMe" are popular topics of research. There is an important opportunity for researchers and clinicians to support patient innovators' research, while being mindful of not taking over their work.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Nadine Borduas-Dedekind, Karen C. Short, Samuel P. Carlson
Summary: Journals with open-discussion forums, such as Earth System Science Data (ESSD), are suitable for peer review training for early career scientists. This article presents the authors' experiences in conducting peer review workshops using manuscripts submitted to ESSD from the perspectives of workshop instructor, student, and author, and provides recommendations for the structure of such workshops. The authors aim to promote the use of open-discussion forums, including ESSD, for educational purposes, as they offer mutual benefits to trainees, authors, reviewers, and editors.
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Li Liu, Qian Wang, Zong-Yuan Tan, Ning Cai
Summary: A novel review system is proposed to improve the performance and effectiveness of peer review. The system is based on an analysis of the peer review process for academic journals and uses a parallel model built via the Monte Carlo method. The model can simulate the review, application, and acceptance activities in a distributed manner. Simulation experiments conducted on two different review systems demonstrate the significant advantages of the novel system.
NONLINEAR DYNAMICS
(2023)
Review
Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
Clovis Mariano Faggion
Summary: The study evaluated the type of peer review blinding used in highly ranked dental journals, finding that the majority of journals employed single-blind and double-blind peer review systems. Journals with higher impact factors tended to use single-blind peer review, while those with lower impact factors tended to use double-blind peer review.
BRITISH DENTAL JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Daniel Sommerhoff, Ingo Kollar, Stefan Ufer
Summary: This study examined the effectiveness of different approaches to support mathematical argumentation and proof skills and their underlying resources among undergraduate mathematics students. Results showed pronounced effects of both sequential and concurrent approaches on the resources, with the concurrent approach benefiting mathematical strategic knowledge significantly more. Short-term effects varied, with students with low prior attainment benefiting most from the intervention, especially from the concurrent approach.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Medical Ethics
Clovis Mariano Faggion
Summary: The present study aimed to assess the clarity and transparency of editorial policies in highly ranked dental journals regarding the handling of submitted manuscripts. The findings revealed the need for improvement in the reporting of editorial policies, including the clear reporting of acceptance criteria for submitted manuscripts, policies for handling manuscripts when an editor is the author, and the possibility of authors submitting rebuttal letters after manuscript rejection.
ACCOUNTABILITY IN RESEARCH-ETHICS INTEGRITY AND POLICY
(2023)
Review
Surgery
Robin R. Cotter, Luke M. Funk, Sandra L. Wong
Summary: Most open access surgical journals are indexed in PubMed, have transparent review processes, employ variable APCs (including no publication fees), and proceed efficiently from submission to publication.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Daniel Garcia-Costa, Flaminio Squazzoni, Bahar Mehmani, Francisco Grimaldo
Summary: This study tested a quality assessment tool on a sample of 1.3 million reports submitted to 740 Elsevier journals. The results showed that the developmental standards of peer review are shared across research areas but with significant differences. Reports submitted to social science and economics journals have the highest developmental standards. Reports from junior reviewers, women, and reviewers from Western Europe are generally more developmental than those from senior, men, and reviewers working in academic institutions outside Western regions.
Review
Health Care Sciences & Services
Marija Roguljic, Dina Simunovic, Tina Poklepovic Pericic, Marin Vidak, Ana Utrobicic, Matko Marusic, Ana Marusic
Summary: This scoping review examines the policies and practices of publishing identifiable patient photographs in scientific articles. The findings reveal a diversity of practices and conflicting opinions among different stakeholders. There are ethical and risk management issues that need to be addressed, and standards and processes should be improved to protect patient privacy.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2022)
Review
History & Philosophy Of Science
Christian Greiffenhagen
Summary: Mathematics is different from other disciplines due to its reliance on deductive proof rather than empirical evidence. While peer review does not guarantee correctness, mathematicians still value it as it adds a certain level of certainty to papers. Peer review can involve disputes not only about the importance of a result but also about whether a particular argument constitutes a proof. The mathematical community plays a crucial role in accepting arguments as proofs and assigning certainty to results.
SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE
(2023)