Open peer review

As Open peer review (Engl. Open peer review , and dynamic or interactive peer review ) describes different versions of peer review to assess scientific papers refer to operations where the review process as opposed to the traditional peer review to insight or even open to participation becomes. Open peer review procedures have been developing since the beginning of the 21st century as a reaction to weaknesses in closed systems, in connection with the open access movement and with the help of new possibilities offered by the Internet .

properties

No uniform standard has yet been established for the open peer review. Possible properties include:

The author of a submitted article is known to the peers.
The reviewing peers will be published together with the contribution after the process has been completed.
The peers' comments will be published with the contribution.
Submitted contributions will be published immediately as a preprint .
The appraisal takes place in an open manner.
The author can reply to comments from the peers.
Public comments can be made on contributions submitted (anonymously or by name, by all selected readers).
Contributions can be edited and corrected openly in a wiki .

Examples

Examples of scientific journals with an open peer review are:

The BMJ (British Medical Journal) decided in 1999 to carry out an open peer review in which the experts and the peer reviewed are known.
In the academic online journal Philica , founded in 2006 , submitted contributions were published immediately and could be rated anonymously.
In 2006, the journal Nature openly approved contributions submitted for comment in a test. This test run was discontinued as planned in November 2006. The acceptance by the authors was better than hoped, but the feedback on comments was unsatisfactory, which may also have been due to the experimental setup, for example the timing or the announcement of the test.
Preprints published at ArXiv.org can be rated and commented on in the Naboj web service . ArXiv.org even offers the possibility of trackbacks .

In the journal ACP (Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics) , submitted articles have been published online since 2001 and initially discussed by the scientific community, although the comments may also be anonymous.

In the magazine SWJ (Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability) , founded in 2010, contributions are published on the homepage and evaluated in a double process. To this end, reviewers are appointed who can remain anonymous, but any scientist can also prepare a (non-anonymous) review. All reviews and the authors' responses are published online.

In addition to open access , the e-journal Economics , which is listed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), also practices open assessment . Published discussion papers are not only examined in the classic peer review process, but are also included in the evaluation and decision on publication as "journal articles". Readers' comments from the specialist community are also included in the evaluation, "Referee reports" are published freely accessible.

Since 2011, the e-journal Kunstgeschichte has been publishing art historical articles based on the principles of public peer review.

The open access publishing platform F1000Research practices an open peer review process.

literature

Tony Ross-Hellauer (2017): What is open peer review? A systematic review . Retrieved August 17, 2018 .
Herb, Ulrich (2015): " Open Science in Sociology: An interdisciplinary inventory of open science and an investigation of its dissemination in sociology. Writings on information science; Vol. 67 [Simultaneously: Diss., Univ. Des Saarlandes, 2015]. Werner Hülsbusch Verlag: Glückstadt 2015. ISBN 978-3-86488-083-4 . Doi: 10.5281 / zenodo.31234 .
Herb, Ulrich. (2012). Openness and scientific works: Open Access, Open Review, Open Metrics, Open Science & Open Knowledge . In Ulrich Herb (Ed.), Open Initiatives: Openness in the digital world and science , (pp. 11–44). Saarbrücken, universaar. On-line

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Richard Smith: Opening up BMJ peer review . In: British Medical Journal . 318, Jan 2, 1999, pp. 4-5.
↑ How does Philica work? (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 23, 2006 ; Retrieved June 26, 2006 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (URL no longer accessible). @1@ 2

^ Nature Peer Review Trial. Archived from the original on April 18, 2015 ; Retrieved June 26, 2006 .

↑ trackbacks. Retrieved June 26, 2006 .

^ Ulrich Pöschl : Open Access. Interactive peer review enhances journal quality. (No longer available online.) 2004, archived from the original on June 16, 2006 ; Retrieved June 26, 2006 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.

[1] Richard Smith: Opening up BMJ peer review . In: British Medical Journal . 318, Jan 2, 1999, pp. 4-5.

[2] How does Philica work? (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 23, 2006 ; Retrieved June 26, 2006 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (URL no longer accessible). @1@ 2

[3] Nature Peer Review Trial. Archived from the original on April 18, 2015 ; Retrieved June 26, 2006 .

[4] trackbacks. Retrieved June 26, 2006 .

[5] Ulrich Pöschl : Open Access. Interactive peer review enhances journal quality. (No longer available online.) 2004, archived from the original on June 16, 2006 ; Retrieved June 26, 2006 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2