Peer review process
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If the new open science journal F1000 Research is anything to go by, we can also expect that the peer review process might be more open and transparent in 10–20 years time. Articles submitted to F1000 are published immediately, then reports from reviewers (along with their names) are published alongside the article as they become available, together with comments from registered users. In the case of other more typical journals (i.e. with a slow and closed/ private review process), this desire to publish immediately is leading researchers to post their articles on pre-print servers like arXiv, so that their work is available to the wider scientific community while it’s being reviewed.
Creagh S., 2011, Princeton goes open access to stop staff handing all copyright to journals – unless waiver granted. theconversation.com/princeton-goes-open-access-to-stopstaff-handing-all-copyright-to-journals-unless-waivergranted-3596
Rather than waiting to get caught out by these changes to the journal submission process, why not get ahead of the game? If you’re submitting a paper soon, consider making your code available on GitHub and your data available at Dryad. Alternatively, if you’re reviewing a paper, why not suggest to the author that they do the same? A version of this article is available on my blog2, which provides hyperlinks to more information on many of the topics covered.
2 drclimate.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/the-future-of-journalsubmissions/
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