“Fragments of peer review: A quantitative analysis of the literature (1969-2015)” by Francisco Grimaldo, Ana Marusic and Flaminio Squazzoni has been published in PLoS ONE. A preliminary version of the article was presented in a PEERE workshop last year. Here is the abstract. This paper examines research on peer review between 1969 and 2015 by looking at records indexed from the Scopus database. Although it is often argued that peer…
“Artificial intelligence in peer review: How can evolutionary computation support journal editors?” by Maciej J. Mrowinski, Piotr Fronczak, Agata Fronczak, Marcel Ausloos and Olgica Nedic has been recently published in PLoS ONE. The article is available open access here. Abstract. With the volume of manuscripts submitted for publication growing every year, the deficiencies of peer review (e.g. long review times) are becoming more apparent. Editorial strategies, sets of guidelines designed…
Matt Hodginkson is Senior Editor at PLos ONE. He graduated in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford, then obtained an MSc from Downing College, Cambridge, where he worked with David Lomas and David Gubb on a fruit fly model of antitrypsin deficiency and first became aware of the open access movement due to Michael Ashburner’s enthusiastic advocacy. He moved to London to join BioMed Central as an assistant editor with…