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Improving peer review: increasing reviewer participation
Author(s) -
LING Fay
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1087/20110311
Subject(s) - citation , point (geometry) , supervisor , library science , computer science , world wide web , political science , law , mathematics , geometry
In the past decade, Internet technologies have produced significant improvements to peer-review systems as editorial peer review migrated to Web-based platforms. Cost reductions, streamlined review processes, shortened turnaround times for decisions, and broader user bases are just a few of the positive changes.1 However, many have challenged the peer-review process on the basis of its fairness, accuracy, validity, reliability, and other limitations.2,3 The STM journal community is therefore obliged to continue to look for more efficient approaches to strengthen the system in light of the goals of peer review. The reviewer plays a vital role in peer review and greatly influences the editors’ decisions. Therefore, the key to improving the process lies mostly with the reviewers.4 However, since peer-review systems have migrated online, there have been few advances to help editors engage reviewers and improve the process. This article focuses on exploring new approaches to engage good reviewers and expand reviewers’ participation in peer review. We discuss three independent topics: