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Open and transparent: the review process of the Semantic Web journal
Author(s) -
JANOWICZ Krzysztof,
HITZLER Pascal
Publication year - 2012
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 - 10.1087/20120107
Subject(s) - computer science , world wide web , semantic web , process (computing) , publishing , data science , library science , information retrieval , political science , programming language , law
While open access is established in the world of academic publishing, open reviews are rare. The Semantic Web journal goes further than just open review by implementing an open and transparent review process in which reviews are publicly available, and the assigned editors and reviewers are known by name, and are published together with accepted manuscripts. In this article we introduce the steps to realize such a process from the conceptual design, over the implementation, a overview of the results so far, and up to lessons learned.