Reading Peer Review

This Element examines digital peer-review practices and institutional change focusing on reviewer behaviour at the megajournal PLOS ONE.

List of contents

1. Peer Review and its discontents; 2. The radicalism of PLOS; 3. New technologies, old traditions?; 4. PLOS, institutional change, and the future of peer review.

Summary

This Element presents the background contexts and histories of peer review, the data-handling sensitivities of this type of research, the typical properties of reports in the journal to which the authors had access, a taxonomy of the reports, and their sentiment arcs. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Paul Eve, Martin Paul (Birkbeck Eve, Robert Gadie, Samuel Moore, Cameron Neylon, Victoria Odeniyi, Daniel Paul O'Donnell, Shahina Parvin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781108742702
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74270-2
• Series: Elements in Publishing and Boo; Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism