Reviewing the role of paper reviewers

By Jen T. Kwok (NTEU National Office). JOURNAL editors soon find out how collegiate their colleagues are when they try to find someone to review a paper. It is a lot of work but, as Mathieu O’Neil has discovered, sometimes an editor can wait months only to get back a useless paragraph.
Amid the emerging debate over whether and how the work of journal editors and reviewers needs to be better recognised, Dr O’Neil’s Journal of Peer Production takes a radically transparent approach. He and his fellow editors don’t just publish the views of reviewers, who can remain anonymous, they also publish the original work before it was reviewed. It provides a window on how significant that contribution has been. More...