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SUBMITTER: Bravo G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6338763 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20190118 1
To increase transparency in science, some scholarly journals are publishing peer review reports. But it is unclear how this practice affects the peer review process. Here, we examine the effect of publishing peer review reports on referee behavior in five scholarly journals involved in a pilot study at Elsevier. By considering 9,220 submissions and 18,525 reviews from 2010 to 2017, we measured changes both before and during the pilot and found that publishing reports did not significantly compro ...[more]