Peering Into the Peer Review Process and Acknowledging Those Who Do It Well

Peering into peer review.

Over the years, many scientists have suggested that the current system could be improved by changing the composition of the review panels, tweaking the interactions among reviewers, or revising how the proposals are scored. But Bollen, a computer scientist at Indiana University, Bloomington, would simply award all eligible researchers a block grant—and then require them to give some of it away ...

Peering into peer-review at GigaScience

Fostering and promoting more open and transparent science is one of the goals of GigaScience. One of the ways we have been doing this is by throwing light on the peer-review process and carrying out open peer-review as standard. In this editorial, we provide our rationale for undertaking this policy, give examples of our positive experiences to date, and encourage others to open up the normally...

Peering into Peer Editing

Goals of the Study Peer editing has been a useful tool in the traditional writing process, especially in recent years. This idea of revising the works of your peers and providing constructive criticism is wildly popular in high school classrooms as well as in entry-level college courses, and it is usually introduced at the early middle school level. The technique is applauded because of its abi...

Peer to Peer: Peering into the Future

Research ethics review: do it once and do it well.