Mirjam Curno's presentation discusses Frontiers’ Collaborative Peer Review.

1. community-rooted
open-access publisher and research network
@frontiersin
www.frontiersin.org

2. Open Access & Open Science drive change in peer-review
Traditional Peer Review
WW II –today
Most of todays ~30k journals
highly selective, innovative and impactful research
~ 40-50’000’000 articles published
1 Editor
2-3
Reviewers
Pre-print servers
1991 –today
ArXiv
1991: no review, pre-print server
fast
> 1’000’000 articles posted
Impact-Neutral Review
2006 –today
BioMed Central journals
2003: Impact-Neutral Review
scientifically sound, fast, transparent
> 100’000 articles published
PLOS One
2006: Impact-Neutral Review, Mega-journal
scientifically sound, fast
> 100’000 articles published
Frontiers journals
2007: Collaborative Peer Review
scientifically sound, fast
interactive, constructive, transparent
> 25’000 articles published
Adopted by many OA journals
Scientific Reports
PeerJ
Faculty 1000 Research
…
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3. 48
OA JOURNALS
350
SPECIALTIES

4. 50’000
EDITORS
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5. frontiers journals publish
high-volume

6. Rethinking peer review
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Big data
More authors
Online only
High volume
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7. transparent
rigorous,
in-depth
efficient &
easy to use
constructive
& fair
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8. Two-phase
review
Naming
reviewers
Access for all involved
One rebuttal guaranteed
Detailed questionnaire
Real-time discussion
Post-publication comments
A comprehensive approach
Reviewers part of
Editorial Board
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