MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review)转发了
I agree with Jeffrey Brainard that pre-prints need better public awareness and the small detail in his Science Magazine article is worth amplifying more: preprints are increasingly peer-reviewed since their proliferation during the covid-19 pandemic. Peer-review is no longer the exclusive domain of journals, another indicator of their declining value proposition. Services such as PREreview (of which I'm on the board) and MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) exist to fill the gap in review outside of the confines of the inequitable traditional publication process. One area of improvement that we need in this space is better metadata and badging to associate and communicate the extent of review of preprints.
It doesn't help that preprints are still stamped with "not certified by peer review" regardless of whether reviews exist. Maybe it's time for a more nuanced approach or, better yet, a sophisticated one that recognizes when reviews from other sources exist.
Yes meta data quality is important
Jonny Coates
2 个月
We also need to stop promoting peer review as a stamp of approval or quality control mechanism - it does not (& wasn't designed to) detect fraud or fabricated data. It does not do a good job of detecting gross defects. It fundamentally is not a quality control step. It does improve a piece of work and that's a valuable add but the constant framing as QC or determining impact etc is dangerous and really not the right direction to keep heading in. As part of multiple other signals it could be one of mnay trust signals and indicators. But we need to communicate what peer review is and is not. Otherwise articles like this will just keep doing the rounds and in 20 years we'll still be having the same circular conversations.
Kristi Holmes
2 个月
I completely agree with your comments! The preprint conversation has evolved considerably. Indeed, preprints have become an unremarkable and natural part of communicating science. ?? Enhancements such as badging and improved metadata and linking are a great suggestion and a wonderful opportunity to support attribution and discoverability, while reinforcing the knowledge graph. You reviewed one of our preprints last year and your feedback helped us make important revisions!
Gunther Eysenbach
2 个月
Also, overlay journals like JMIRx-Med or JMIRx-Bio (https://xmed.jmir.org) - indexed in Pubmed they offer the metadata and findability of peer-reviewed preprints
Pavithran Narayanan
2 个月
Preprints have also changed the whole meaning of the term "peer review". Of course, there is peer reviewing by reviewing services like PREreview, Review Commons, etc. But it's blurred the line between a comment and a review, a critical reader and a reviewer! #Democratization #Publishing #Science
PeerReviewMe
2 个月
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Updating this post because I mischaracterized the article in my over zealous enthusiasm for preprint review - thanks to Jeffrey Brainard for raising it to me.