76: Open peer review

Episode 76 · January 21st, 2019 · 48 mins 8 secs

About this Episode

Peer review is typically conducted behind closed doors. There's been a recent push to make open peer review standard, but what's often left out of these conversations are the potential downsides. To illustrate this, Dan and James discuss a recent instance of open peer review that led to considerable online debate.

Here's what they cover...

  • How should we navigate the open review of preprints?
  • Gate keepers gonna gate keep, but is this better out in the open?
  • Weaponising openness
  • Some people don't realise that some data can’t be shared
  • Should the reviewers of rejected papers follow them to the next journal?
  • When bad papers that you reject pop up in another journal, unchanged
  • Does the venue and timing of the open peer review matter?
  • Signing your reviews
  • Using publons to track your reviews

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Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/


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