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The Streetlight Effect represents an observation bias that occurs whenindividuals search for something only where it is easiest to look. Despite thesignificant development of Post-Publication Peer Review (PPPR) in recent years,facilitated in part by platforms such as PubPeer, existing literature has notexamined whether PPPR is affected by this type of bias. In other words, if thePPPR mainly concerns publications to which researchers have direct access (egto analyze image duplications, etc.). In this study, we compare the Open Access(OA) structures of publishers and journals among 51,882 publications commentedon PubPeer to those indexed in OpenAlex database (\#156,700,177). Our findingsindicate that OA journals are 33% more prevalent in PubPeer than in the globaltotal (52% for the most commented journals). This result can be attributed todisciplinary bias in PubPeer, with overrepresentation of medical and biologicalresearch (which exhibits higher levels of openness). However, afternormalization, the results reveal that PPPR does not exhibit a StreetlightEffect, as OA publications, within the same discipline, are on average 16% lessprevalent in PubPeer than in the global total. These results suggest that theprocess of scientific self-correction operates independently of publicationaccess status.

Streetlight Effect in Post-Publication Peer Review: Are Open Access Publications More Scrutinized?