Background:“Open peer review”(OPR), despite being a major pillar of Open Science, has
neither a standardized definition nor an agreed schema of its features and implementations …

Prepublication peer review is a cornerstone of science. Overburdened reviewers invest
millions of hours in this voluntary activity. In this scoping review, we aimed at identifying …

A reduction in reviewer's recommendation quality may be caused by a limitation of time or
cognitive overload that comes from the level of redundancy, contradiction and inconsistency …

Co-creation is a process that directly involves different stakeholders in the idea generation
phase of a new product development process. A pool of 112 new aquaculture fish product …

We present new data on peer review practices in linguistics journals, reporting the results of
an online survey of editors. This paper aims to increase understanding of the processes and …

This paper shows that, for a large range of parameters, the journal editor prefers to delegate
the choice to review the manuscript to the biased referee. If the peer review process is …

The aim of this study was to investigate the opinion of authors on the overall quality and
effectiveness of reviewers' contributions to reviewed papers. We employed an on-line survey …

Diversity, equity, and inclusion play pivotal roles in advancing science and innovation by
fostering a rich and supportive environment that benefits both individuals and society. UK …

The scientific quality of the academic journal deeply relies on its peer review policy which
may be guided by some cheap talk statement. However, some of these policies may fail to …

This paper studies the grant peer review process employed by the Turkish regional
development agencies, which is adapted from a review procedure of the Education …