The peer review process faces significant challenges and inconsistencies, with an ever-increasing amount of articles being published, various types of peer review, and differing community standards and requirements across disciplines and regions. This diversity often results in uneven quality, transparency, and inclusivity in scholarly evaluations.
To address these issues, we are launching an extensive mapping of peer review resources to identify specific challenges, opportunities, and best practices that are broadly applicable while respecting the diverse needs of the global research community.
Towards a more equitable, effective,
and universally adaptable peer review system.
The growing database contains resources on peer review of different forms and types, including journal articles, books, book chapters, infographics, and more.
Resources from any research field and in any language can be added through a publicly available form.
The resource list and any outcomes from the initiative are open for contributions and can be adapted for any use case across research communities and disciplines.
Join the team
How to contribute:
- Adding and/or curating resources to the database
- Working on project outputs based on resource analyses
- Both, curating resources to the database and analyzing them for project outputs
- Co-writing articles based on topics that emerge from the database
- Providing training in Peer Review
We will attribute substantial contributions based on the CRediT taxonomy and compensate monetarily where applicable.
Institutional backing
Scholarly institutions are invited to support our initiative.
- Contribute Insights: Share insights, case studies, or data on your institution’s peer review practices and challenges.
- Engage in Dialogue: Participate in roundtable discussions, workshops, or surveys designed to inform the mapping project.
- Promote the Initiative
These institutions have already joined:
- Access 2 Perspectives
- Applied Neuroscience Association (ANA)
- Reviewer Credits
- Storytelling for Science
Support our work
Financial contributions will go towards:
- project conceptualization and maintenance,
- data curation, processing, analysis, and visualization,
- producing guidelines, recommendations, infographics
- organizing events and community consultations
Contact: info@access2perspectives.org
This is a FORCE11 Working Group. Find the project page at https://force11.org/active-groups/
Please cite as:
Machado, M., Dyke, G., & Havemann, J. (2024). Enhancing Peer Review Standards for Quality Research Publications. Access 2 Perspectives. doi.org/10.21428/51e64700.fcd86e15
Dataset V1.0: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10657539