Peering into peer review.

Peering into peer review: Galileo, ESP, Dr Scott Reuben, and advancing our professional evolution.

The fundamental purpose of peer review is quality control that facilitates the introduction of information into our discipline; information that is essential to the care of patients who require anesthesia services. While the AANA Journal relies heavily on this process to maintain the overall quality of our scholarly literature, it may fail that objective under certain conditions. This editorial...

Peer to Peer: Peering into the Future

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 Inside Peer Review with Bayesian Models

Instructors and students would benefit more from computersupported peer review, if instructors received information on how well students have understood the conceptual issues underlying the writing assignment. Our aim is to provide instructors with an evaluation of both the students and the criteria that students used to assess each other. Here we develop and evaluate several hierarchical Bayes...

Innovations in the Internet's Architecture that Challenge the Status Quo

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 79 I. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE EARLY INTERNET .................... 81 A. The Topology of the Early Internet .......................................... 81 B. Business Relationships on the Early Internet: Peering and Transit ...............................................................................