To increase transparency in science, some scholarly journals are publishing peer review
reports. But it is unclear how this practice affects the peer review process. Here, we examine …

Within the large body of literature on the peer review system for academic journals, there
has been limited exploration of the latent functions of review feedback beyond its …

Scholarly journals are often blamed for a gender gap in publication rates, but it is unclear
whether peer review and editorial processes contribute to it. This article examines gender …

Insights from biomedical citation networks can be used to identify promising avenues for
accelerating research and its downstream bench-to-bedside translation. Citation analysis …

Peer review is essential for advancing scientific research, but there are long‐standing
concerns that authors' prestige or other characteristics can bias reviewers. Double‐blind …

Peer review plays an essential role in the scholarly publishing life cycle. Using the verified
peer review records of reviewers who use the Publons, we employed review length as a …

Peer review is not only a quality screening mechanism for scholarly journals. It also
connects authors and referees either directly or indirectly. This means that their positions in …

Transparency and accountability are keywords in corporate business, politics, and science.
As part of the open science movement, many journals have started to adopt forms of open …

This article examines publication patterns over the last seventy years from the American
Sociological Review and American Journal of Sociology, the two most prominent journals in …

This paper looks at peer review as a cooperation dilemma through a game-theory
framework. We built an agent-based model to estimate how much the quality of peer review …