Presentation held at the OASPA 2023 Conference during the panel Preprints: Supporting Open Peer Review and Global Preprint Adoption Trends. Aurelia Munene and Jo Havemann contributed with an African perspective to this year’s OASPA conference panel: Preprints: Supporting Open Peer Review and Global Preprint Adoption Trends. The slides are available […]
Peer Review
- Comparing different types of peer review
- Benefits and flaws
- The process
- Critical reading of a manuscript
- The peer review debate: (not only) a quest for more transparency in the process
- What does it take to be a referee?
Resouces and references
[Open] Peer Review
- PREreview. Open Reviewers toolkit
- Bias Reflection Guide (assess and mitigate biases)
- Reviewer Guide
- Review Assessment Rubric (constructively evaluate their peers’ reviews)
- Canada Research Chairs. Bias in Peer Review (PDF)
- Canadian Science Publishing. How to write a scientific peer review: a guide for the new reviewer,
- COPE. Resources collection: Peer Review processes, publicationethics.org/peerreview
- COPE. Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers, https://publicationethics.org/node/19886
- eLife. Collection of Peer Review articles, elifesciences.org/collections/0a5cf428/peer-review
- Enago Academy. Resources on Peer Review, enago.com/academy/tag/peer-review/
- Enago Academy. Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Peer Review, https://www.enago.com/academy/increasing-diversity-and-inclusion-in-peer-review/
- Health Systems Global. The peer review process – what happens when you send your manuscript to a journal (A webinar recording that covers the formal process of submitting a manuscript)
- PLOS. Peer Review Center, https://plos.org/resources/for-reviewers/
- Science. Peer Review at Science Publications,
- Wiley. Step by step guide to reviewing a manuscript
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Meadows A (2018). Eight Ways to Tackle Diversity and Inclusion in Peer Review. The Scholarly Kitchen
Okune, Angela. (2019). Self-Review of Citational Practice. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3066861
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