Why is this a useful thing to do? It's useful because the vast volume of material published
each year (or each day) makes it difficult for researchers to stay up to date with their own …

“Classical peer review” has been subject to intense criticism for slowing down the
publication process, bias against specific categories of paper and author, unreliability …

Beginning November 1, 2010, The Journal of Neuroscience will no longer allow authors to
include supplemental material when they submit new manuscripts and will no longer host …

A selected-papers (SP) network is a network in which researchers who read, write, and
review articles subscribe to each other based on common interests. Instead of reviewing a …

Peer-reviewed publications are the primary mechanism for sharing scientific results. The
current peer-review process is, however, fraught with many problems that undermine the …

The current system of publishing in the biological sciences is notable for its redundancy,
inconsistency, sluggishness, and opacity. These problems persist, and grow worse, because …

Although many observers have advocated the reform of the scholarly publishing system,
improvements to functions like peer review have been adopted sluggishly. We argue that …

Recent open science efforts to improve rigor and reliability have sparked great enthusiasm.
Among these, the Registered Report publication format integrates best practices in …

In this paper we review several novel approaches for research evaluation. We start with a
brief overview of the peer review, its controversies, and metrics for assessing efficiency and …

Social media has created new pathways for postpublication peer review, which regularly
leads to corrections. Such online discussions are often resisted by authors and editors …