[HTML][HTML] Gender gap in journal submissions and peer review during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. A study on 2329 Elsevier journals

F Squazzoni, G Bravo, F Grimaldo, D García-Costa… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an unusually high
submission rate of scholarly articles. Given that most academics were forced to work from …

Challenges, experiments, and computational solutions in peer review

NB Shah - Communications of the ACM, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Challenges, experiments, and computational solutions in peer review Page 1 76
COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | JUNE 2022 | VOL. 65 | NO. 6 review articles IMA GER YB Y …

Reviewergpt? an exploratory study on using large language models for paper reviewing

R Liu, NB Shah - arxiv preprint arxiv:2306.00622, 2023 - arxiv.org
Given the rapid ascent of large language models (LLMs), we study the question:(How) can
large language models help in reviewing of scientific papers or proposals? We first conduct …

[PDF][PDF] No tickets for women in the COVID-19 race? A study on manuscript submissions and reviews in 2347 Elsevier journals during the pandemic

F Squazzoni, G Bravo, F Grimaldo… - SSRN Electronic …, 2020 - researchgate.net
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the submission rate to scholarly
journals increased abnormally (eg, more than 90% in health & medicine Elsevier journals) …

Relationship between journal impact factor and the thoroughness and helpfulness of peer reviews

A Severin, M Strinzel, M Egger, T Barros, A Sokolov… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The Journal Impact Factor is often used as a proxy measure for journal quality, but the
empirical evidence is scarce. In particular, it is unclear how peer review characteristics for a …

The academic status of reviewers predicts their language use

Z Sun, CC Cao, C Ma, Y Li - Journal of Informetrics, 2023 - Elsevier
Peer review plays an essential role in scientific research, but the influence of reviewers'
academic status is often overlooked during this process. By accessing peer review reports …

Textual features of peer review predict top-cited papers: An interpretable machine learning perspective

Z Sun - Journal of Informetrics, 2024 - Elsevier
Peer review is crucial in improving the quality and reliability of scientific research. However,
the mechanisms through which peer review practices ensure papers become top-cited …

Understanding the peer review endeavor in scientific publishing

G Zhang, S Xu, Y Sun, C Jiang, X Wang - Journal of Informetrics, 2022 - Elsevier
Peer review plays an essential role in the scholarly publishing life cycle. Using the verified
peer review records of reviewers who use the Publons, we employed review length as a …

Measuring the developmental function of peer review: a multi-dimensional, cross-disciplinary analysis of peer review reports from 740 academic journals

D Garcia-Costa, F Squazzoni, B Mehmani, F Grimaldo - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Reviewers do not only help editors to screen manuscripts for publication in academic
journals; they also serve to increase the rigor and value of manuscripts by constructive …

Do reviewers get their deserved acknowledgments from the authors of manuscripts?

P Jia, W **e, G Zhang, X Wang - Scientometrics, 2023 - Springer
As the gatekeeper of science, reviewers play an essential role in academic publishing by
improving the quality of papers and maintaining research integrity. In this research, we …