Peer review is embedded in the core of our knowledge generation systems, perceived as a
method for establishing quality or scholarly legitimacy for research, while also often …

Review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) processes significantly affect how faculty direct their
own career and scholarly progression. Although RPT practices vary between and within …

Achieving impact from academic research is a challenging, complex, multifaceted, and
interconnected topic with a number of competing priorities and key performance indicators …

Background:“Open peer review”(OPR), despite being a major pillar of Open Science, has
neither a standardized definition nor an agreed schema of its features and implementations …

Open peer review (OPR), where review reports and reviewers' identities are published
alongside the articles, represents one of the last aspects of the open science movement to …

Many sectors, like finance, medicine, manufacturing, and education, use blockchain
applications to profit from the unique bundle of characteristics of this technology. Blockchain …

Open peer review (OPR) is a cornerstone of the emergent Open Science agenda. Yet to
date no large-scale survey of attitudes towards OPR amongst academic editors, authors …

This book presents an overview of the wide variety of digital genres used by researchers to
produce and communicate knowledge, perform new identities and evaluate research …

Although the best-known use of blockchain technology (BCT) is in the field of economics
and cryptocurrencies in general, its usefulness is extending to other fields, including the …

The quality and integrity of the scientific literature have recently become the subject of
heated debate. Due to an apparent increase in cases of scientific fraud and irreproducible …