“Day of the week effect in paper submission/acceptance/rejection to/in/by peer review journals. II. An ARCH econometric-like modeling” by Marcel Ausloos, Olgica Nedic, Aleksandar Dekanski, Maciej J. Mrowinski, Piotr Fronczak and Agata Fronczak has been published in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 468, 15 February 2017, Pages 462–474. Here is the article. Abstract. This paper aims at providing a statistical model for the preferred behavior of authors submitting a paper…
A news article on “Reviewing the review process: New Frontiers of Peer Review”, which promotes PEERE, by R. Wijesinha-Bettoni et al. has been published on the last issue of Xjenza Online – Journal of The Malta Chamber of Scientists. Abstract: This news article introduces a new COST Action entitled PEERE (TD1306), which stands for New Frontiers of Peer Review (PEERE). PEERE is a trans-domain proposal which brings together researchers from…
On 11 July 2016, Stefano Balietti (previously at ETH Zurich, now at Network Science Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, US) and Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich), both past PEERE members from Switzerland, published an article on Peer review and competition in the Art Exhibition Game in PNAS, 2016. A preliminary version of the paper was presented at a PEERE meeting in Zurich in 2015. Here is the abstract: “Competition is an essential…
Day of the week effect in paper submission/acceptance/rejection to/in/by peer review journals, by Marcel Ausloos, Olgica Nedic and Aleksandar Dekanski published in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Volume 456, 15 August 2016, Pages 197–203. Abstract. This paper aims at providing an introduction to the behavior of authors submitting a paper to a scientific journal. Dates of electronic submission of papers to the Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society have…
An article on “Attitudes of referees in a multidisciplinary journal: An empirical analysis” by Niccolò Casnici, Francisco Grimaldo, Nigel Gilbert and Flaminio Squazzoni has been recently published in JASIST (Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology). The open access publication of this article was supported by PEERE. Here is the article.
Petra Ahrweiler (EA European Academy, Germany, PEERE WG3 vice-leader) published “Innovating the Gutenberg Galaxis – The Role of Peer Review and Open Access in University Knowledge Dissemination and Evaluation- Mainz, 26 und 27 Januar 2016” in ABI Technik, 36, 1, 2016. This article reported on the PEERE and KNOWeSCAPE joint meeting and the link between peer review and open access, which was discussed in Mainz, on 26-27 January 2016. Have…
Marcel Ausloos published “Coherent measures of the impact of co-authors in peer review journals and in proceedings publications” in Physica A 438 (2015) 568-578
“Priority criteria in peer review of scientific articles” by Olgica Nedić and Aleksandar Dekanski published online in Scientometrics on 2nd February 2016. Here is the abstract. Number of researchers, journals and articles has significantly increased in the last few years and peer review is still the most reliable instrument to sort out innovative, valuable, scientifically sound information from the pool of submitted results. Editors and publishers join their efforts to…
“Peer review motivation frames: A qualitative approach” by Monica Zaharie (a new PEERE MC member from Romania) & Codruţa Luminiţa Osoian published in the European Management Journal on 29 December 2015. Have a look here.
A paper entitled “Exploring Social Practices of Peer-Review in an Agent-Based Simulation: The COST Action PEERE”, by Virginia Dignum and Frank Dignum (Delft University of Technology, NL) has been published in The 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2015) conference proceedings. The paper presented PEERE to an international audience. Here is a copy of the paper.