Open Peer Review by a Selected-Papers Network

Lee, Christopher

doi:10.3389/fncom.2012.00001

Open Peer Review by a Selected-Papers Network

Journal Article · Sat Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2011 · Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2012.00001· OSTI ID:1628197

Lee, Christopher ^[1]

Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). UCLA-DOE Inst. for Genomics and Proteomics. Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry; DOE/OSTI

A selected-papers (SP) network is a network in which researchers who read, write, and review articles subscribe to each other based on common interests. Instead of reviewing a manuscript in secret for the Editor of a journal, each reviewer simply publishes his review (typically of a paper he wishes to recommend) to his SP network subscribers. Once the SP network reviewers complete their review decisions, the authors can invite any journal editor they want to consider these reviews and initial audience size, and make a publication decision. Since all impact assessment, reviews, and revisions are complete, this decision process should be short. I show how the SP network can provide a new way of measuring impact, catalyze the emergence of new subfields, and accelerate discovery in existing fields, by providing each reader a fine-grained filter for high-impact. I present a three phase plan for building a basic SP network, and making it an effective peer review platform that can be used by journals, conferences, users of repositories such as arXiv, and users of search engines such as PubMed. I show how the SP network can greatly improve review and dissemination of research articles in areas that are not well-supported by existing journals. Finally, I illustrate how the SP network concept can work well with existing publication services such as journals, conferences, arXiv, PubMed, and online citation management sites.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: FC02-02ER63421

OSTI ID:: 1628197

Journal Information:: Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Journal Name: Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience Vol. 6; ISSN 1662-5188

Publisher:: Frontiers Research FoundationCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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