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February 2024 – Article
A guide for social science journal editors on easing into open science published
Peer Review Committee Chair, Mario Malički, collaborated on A guide for social science journal editors on easing into open science. Published summary paper can be found in RIPR: https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-023-00141-5, and the full guide on OSF: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/hstcx
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February 2024 – Article
Scoping review on Open Peer Review Published
Peer Review Committee Member, Serge Horbach, is a co-author on a recently published scoping review titled: Additional experiments required: A scoping review of recent evidence on key aspects of Open Peer Review.
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February 2024 – Article
Preprint on Structured Peer Review published
Peer Review Committee Chair, Mario Malički and Committee member Bahar Mehmani posted a preprint titled Structured Peer Review: Pilot results from 23 Elsevier Journals
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January 2024 – Webinar
Free webinar – The Future of Peer Review and Reproducible Science
Peer Review Committee Chair, Mario Malički is giving a talk at the The Future of Science Seminar Series hosted by DeSci Foundation. The talk will cover his current research on peer review and considerations regarding the future of scholarly communication.
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November 2023 – Webinar
Free webinar – Transparency and Innovation in Peer Review
Peer Review Committee Member, Serge Horbach, participated in the JEDI 2023 Annual Meeting webinar on the topic Transparency and Innovation in Peer Review. This webinar explored the evolving landscape of peer review as panellists discussed the challenges and opportunities related to transparency, open reviewer identities, open content in reviews, new ways to provide post-publication evaluations of scholarly manuscripts, and more.
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October 2023 – Event
Peer Review Committee Chair discusses peer review and preprint journalist coverage
Peer Review Committee Chair, Mario Malički, participated in the 2023 Scholarly Communication Institute (SCI) - on the topic of Trust and pre-truth science: The case of preprints.
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September 2023 – Activity
Publication of infographic: A Brief History of Peer Review
Scholarly journals instituting some kind of peer review date back to the 1600s, but peer review as we know it only appeared roughly in the 1950s. Since then, the peer-reviewed paper has been the gold standard of reliable research reporting. Over this time, peer review has changed—and is changing—to meet the demands of the times.
David Burbridge summarises the crucial developments in peer review and its prospects for the future on behalf of Editage and EASE as part of their contribution to Peer Review Week 2023.
Download the infographic: https://ease.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/A-brief-history-of-peer-review-infographic.png
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September 2023 – Webinar
The Great Peer Review Debate: Open, Closed, and Transparent Models
Peer Review Committee Chair, Mario Malički, participated in a webinar discussing pros and cons of open peer review.
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September 2023 – Webinar
Generative AI in research evaluation
Peer Review Committee member, Bahar Mehmani, participated in a panel discussion on Generative AI in research evaluation.
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September 2023 – Discussion, Event
Ask Me Anything panel for Chinese audience for Peer Review Week 2023
Three EASE members, Past President, Joan Marsh, and Council members Matt Hodgkinson and Jadranka Stojanovski, answered peer review related questions in an ‘Ask me Anything’ panel for a Chinese audience organised in partnership with Cactus Communication on the ScienceNet platform.
Between them they have answered over 70 questions in a two hour period. The team at Cactus did a brilliant job of translating all the questions into English for our panel and then translating their answers back into Chinese.
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September 2023 – Event, Panel discussion, Webinar
PRW2023 Breaking the mould: exploring the impact of peer review innovations on the future
Scholarly publishing is entering a new era of radical change. The rise of Open Access (OA), open science, big data, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the landscape like never before. In this unsettling yet transformative time, it is imperative for stakeholders across the scholarly ecosystem to collaborate proactively and ensure that peer review evolves such that it continues to be our most powerful tool for evaluating the rigor, credibility, and interest of scholarly research. The recording of this webinar is free and open to all, use the link below to explore the different trends, learn about the different “futures” that the community envisions, and listen to the discussion on what is needed to prepare for this future.
EASE partnered with Editage from Cactus Communication, to bring you this webinar.
Christopher Leonard, Director, Strategy and Innovation, Cactus Communication hosted a panel of three speakers:
Sven Fund, Managing Director, Reviewers Credits
Phill Jones, Co-founder, Digital and Technology, MoreBrains Consulting Cooperative
Iva Grabarić Andonovski, Editor, University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, Food Technology and Biotechnology journal
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September 2023 – Event
PUBMET2023 – The 10th Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science
Peer Review Chair, Mario Malički, and Committee member, Jadranka Stojanovski, participated at the 2023 PUBMET conference.
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July 2023 – Viewpoint
Publication of a blog post: (Open!) Peer review – an overview
Peer Review Committee member, Jadranka Stojanovski, published a blog post covering the evolution of peer review research, peer review models and innovations, as well data and preprint review. See the blog post on: https://lab.operas-eu.org/2023/07/05/open-peer-review-an-overview/
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January 2023 – Webinar
FREE webinar – How we can improve peer review of in vitro studies?
Join Dr Paul Whaley and Dr Nikki Osborne as they discuss how we can improve peer review of in vitro studies.
During this session Dr Paul Whaley (Evidence-Based Toxicology Collaboration & Lancaster University, Editor-in-Chief of Evidence-Based Toxicology) discussed the challenges of peer reviewing in vitro studies and shared a new tool that researchers can use to improve the consistency, transparency, and community value of their peer-review comments.
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November 2022
ALLEA – GYA – STM joint Webinar – IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility) in scholarly peer-review
In this upcoming joint webinar, we will explore issues related to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in the scholarly peer review system. The peer review system currently does not accurately represent the research community as a whole: women, researchers from the Global South and less-established institutions, early career researchers, and non-native English speakers are all among those under-represented. In addition, researchers not affiliated with established high-status institutions often experience a disadvantage when their work is submitted for peer review. Together, these biases directly affect individuals’ career progression and are likely to impact the quality of research outputs and the diversification of the research system in general.
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September 2022
EASE/UKRIO panel discussion: How can peer review support research integrity?
EASE and UKRIO join forces to host a panel discussion for Peer Review Week 2022. Panellists will discuss a range of issues surrounding expectations of the peer review process to detect integrity issues, tools and guidelines for spotting misconduct, expertise required and different models in use. This event is free and open to all.
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September 2022
Peer Review Week 2022
Peer Review Week is a virtual community-led yearly global event celebrating the essential role that peer review plays in maintaining scientific quality. The event brings together individuals, institutions, and organizations committed to sharing the central message that good peer review, whatever shape or form it might take, is critical to scholarly communications.
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September 2022
Publication of Peer Review Infographics
The EASE Peer Review Committee published three new infographics to promote their recently updated and revamped Peer Review Toolkit.
Read more about the infographics and download each file from the Read More link to the side of the page.
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September 2022
International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication
Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication
September 8-10, 2022.
Venue: Swissôtel, Chicago, Illinois, United States
The aim of the Congress is to encourage research into the quality and credibility of peer review and scientific publication, to establish the evidence base on which scientists can improve the conduct, reporting, and dissemination of scientific research.
https://peerreviewcongress.org/index.html
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May 2022
May the force be with you: Resources to help journal editors advance their fields
Join the team at the Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences - JEDI (Data-PASS Journal Editors Discussion Interface) for a day of discussions with highly respected social science journal editors and scholarly knowledge builders.
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May 2022
CALJ Annual Conference 2022
CALJ-ACRS will host its annual conference as part of the 2022 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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February 2022
Researcher to Reader Conference
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September 2021 – Panel discussion
EASE panel discussion for Peer Review Week 2021
The EASE Peer Review Committee organised a panel discussion webinar about identity in peer review as part of PRW2021, on Monday, 20 September. Four speakers talked about a different aspect of identity related to the peer review process.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, presented by Jessica Miles
Peer Reviewer selection, presented by Gabriela Mejias
Recognition, presented by Haseeb Irfanullah
Transparency of the peer review models, review report availability, identity transparency and different ways of identity disclosure, presented by Tony Ross-Hellauer
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April 2021 – Training, Webinar
EASE Member Webinar: Quick guide to manuscript peer review
Session content:
the peer-review process and the role of editors
different peer review models
the role of peer reviewers
and the characteristics of a constructive peer-review report.
Speaker: Dr Bahar Mehmani – EASE Council, Chair of the Peer Review Committee / Reviewer Experience Lead for Elsevier
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November 2020 – Panel discussion
A panel discussion on the role of preprints and independent peer review services in crisis times
Session within the EASE Virtual Conference 2020
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January 2020
EASE Croatian Regional Chapter webinar for PRW2020
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January 2020
EASE Turkish Regional Chapter webinar for PRW2020
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January 2020
PRW2020 videos
Several members participated in the YouTube channel of the Peer Review week
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January 2020 – Translation
PR for PRW2020
Each regional chapter translated the 'Get involved' announcement for peer review week
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January 2020 – Translation
Translation of the PRW2020 press release
EASE regional chapter members provided translations of the Peer Review Week press release, (Croatian, Russian, Turkish and Vietnamese).
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January 2020 – Activity
PEERE data sharing meeting (Oct 2018)
Publication of outcomes from the PEERE data sharing meeting in collaboration with members (Ana, Duncan, Flaminio and Bahar)
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January 2020 – Activity
PRW2020 Committee
Bahar co-chaired the Events and International committee of the Peer Review Week and engaged with EASE regional chapters.
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January 2019 – Activity
Creation of YouTube channel for PRW
Duncan create a YouTube channel for Peer Review Week, which by September 2020 received over 300 subscribers.
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January 2019 – Activity
PRW2019
Bahar co-chaired the organizing committee of the Peer Review Week
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January 2018 – Activity
PEERE New Frontier meeting
Participation in PEERE New Frontiers of peer review meeting: data sharing and research on peer review.
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January 2018 – Activity
PEERE Peer Reviewer training school
Involvement in PEERE Peer Reviewer training school, Split, Croatia.
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January 2017 – Activity
Peer review toolkit
Development of the EASE peer review toolkit