What is it about?
This study explores the selective corpus of existing literature on Open Peer Review (OPR) to understand and map the extent of adoption of OPR in the scholarly communication, the reflection of different aspects of human emotion embedded in the open peer review reports and authors’ response as well, the influence of OPR reports on citation status of articles, and application of Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and similar technologies in improving the operational viability as well as acceptability of OPR among the scholarly community. The study finds the emergence of various OPR adoption policies and levels of adoption together with emerging models of scientific publishing. Clearly, there is a lack of uniform OPR adoption policy. It also highlights the association of different sets of human emotional traits with OPR reports. The experimentation with the possibility of treating preprint servers and open access repositories as a manuscript marketplace for the eventual selection of articles for open peer review and journal publication is noticed. More research on the influence of human behavioral aspects on OPR practice and the application of emergent technologies in OPR would be required before finally settling down on a stable roadmap for OPR.
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Why is it important?
It highlights how open peer review can improve the quality of peer review system and the emerging areas associated with this concept.
Perspectives
I am hopeful that this article would stimulate the research community to think beyond traditional closed peer review system.
Sandip Majumdar
University of Gour Banga
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This page is a summary of: The scope of open peer review in the scholarly publishing ecosystem, Annals of Library and Information Studies, January 2023, CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research (NIScPR),
DOI: 10.56042/alis.v70i1.68736.
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