Cooperation between referees and authors increases peer review accuracy.
Peer review is fundamentally a cooperative process between scientists in a community who agree to review each other's work in an unbiased fashion. Peer review is the foundation for decisions concerning publication in journals, awarding of grants, and academic promotion. Here we perform a labora...
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| description | Peer review is fundamentally a cooperative process between scientists in a community who agree to review each other's work in an unbiased fashion. Peer review is the foundation for decisions concerning publication in journals, awarding of grants, and academic promotion. Here we perform a laboratory study of open and closed peer review based on an online game. We show that when reviewer behavior was made public under open review, reviewers were rewarded for refereeing and formed significantly more cooperative interactions (13% increase in cooperation, P = 0.018). We also show that referees and authors who participated in cooperative interactions had an 11% higher reviewing accuracy rate (P = 0.016). Our results suggest that increasing cooperation in the peer review process can lead to a decreased risk of reviewing errors. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-23b59ea34df34893b12ea1903df570512022-12-22T01:05:30ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032011-01-01611e2689510.1371/journal.pone.0026895Cooperation between referees and authors increases peer review accuracy.Jeffrey T LeekMargaret A TaubFernando J PinedaPeer review is fundamentally a cooperative process between scientists in a community who agree to review each other's work in an unbiased fashion. Peer review is the foundation for decisions concerning publication in journals, awarding of grants, and academic promotion. Here we perform a laboratory study of open and closed peer review based on an online game. We show that when reviewer behavior was made public under open review, reviewers were rewarded for refereeing and formed significantly more cooperative interactions (13% increase in cooperation, P = 0.018). We also show that referees and authors who participated in cooperative interactions had an 11% higher reviewing accuracy rate (P = 0.016). Our results suggest that increasing cooperation in the peer review process can lead to a decreased risk of reviewing errors.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3212530?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Jeffrey T Leek Margaret A Taub Fernando J Pineda Cooperation between referees and authors increases peer review accuracy. PLoS ONE |
| title | Cooperation between referees and authors increases peer review accuracy. |
| title_full | Cooperation between referees and authors increases peer review accuracy. |
| title_fullStr | Cooperation between referees and authors increases peer review accuracy. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cooperation between referees and authors increases peer review accuracy. |
| title_short | Cooperation between referees and authors increases peer review accuracy. |
| title_sort | cooperation between referees and authors increases peer review accuracy |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3212530?pdf=render |
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