– pünktlich losgefahren
– Manuskript im Rahmen von #PeerReview gelesen
– den Flixtrain überholt
– in H schnell 1 Cappuccino
– den verspäteten #ICE543 nach Berlin geschafft
– Lösungen Übungsblatt 1 an Tutor*Innen geschickt
– jetzt Lösungen zu Blatt 2 erstellen

My very belated annual roundup of things we learned about peer review in 2024. Including structured peer review, reviewers' uncertainty, and "uselessly elongated review bias."

Featuring @bahar and @aidybarnett

Now online at @PLOS

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/04/28/5-things-we-learned-about-peer-review-in-2024/

So far in 2025, I’ve had the privilege of peer-reviewing for these great journals:
* Philosophia - A Global Journal of Philosophy,
* American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.
Grateful to contribute to the academic community! #Philosophy #PeerReview

Before submitting your manuscript, make sure to include some obvious errors. This gives reviewers a sense of adding some value to the process, without asking you to change anything of consequence. #AcademicPublishing #AcademicJournals #AcademicChatter #PeerReview

Interesting to see that the editors of the Journal of Intangible Cultural Heritage Studies think of me as an expert of "The Doctoral Sword and the Living History in Finland" ;-)

This journey would not be possible without the people behind the pages:
Our brilliant authors,
Our dedicated peer reviewers,
And our passionate editorial team.

Special thanks to our Editor-in-Chief Dr. habil. Judit Beke for leading with vision, warmth, and purpose.

#thankyou for believing in #OpenAccess, #academic dialogue, and meaningful #research

Here’s to the next 5 years!
#thankyou #academiccommunity #openscience #gjsd #peerreview #editors #educationinnovation #lifelonglearning

I'm crying #Science #AcademicSky #EduSky #PeerReview

The GitHub link: https://github.com/stevenaleach/iden

I think I finally have this thing complete - the paper is live hosted on a little test node, also lives as README.md on the GitHub.

https://idens.net/iden://z1HRUsTNcYMkN5WPm9s1YjGaLUVs58RVRHPjBrV1kYwdAJ.642/pub

We have presented ing.grid at E-Science-Tage 2025! Find our poster titled "ing.grid: Bridging the Troubled Waters of Peer Review – Towards Openness, Fairness and F.A.I.R.ness" here.

Poster: https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00036267
#OpenScience #FAIRdata #PeerReview #ResearchDataManagement

Board eines Journals erwartet weitere revisions die ich für völlig überflüssig halte. Was tun:

"I wish you all the best with the revision."

What a nice way to end a review!

Whatever criticism you may have and however you may think the manuscript might need to be improved to be publishable, you can always afford to be kind to the author.

And remember, even if the review is double blind, the editor knows who you are, so don't be a dick, OK?

Ihr wisst, was das bedeutet!?

Das "Authors Removed for Preliminary Manuscript" hat ja super funktioniert.

What will most transform #ScholComm in the next 10 years? A new survey of 90 #ECRs from 7 countries gives first place to #AI, followed closely by #OpenAccess and #OpenScience, followed by changes to #PeerReview.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.2008

While respondents thought AI would trigger more change than OA and OS, they were split on whether those changes would be good or bad. They were more united on the benefits of OA and OS.

I like this summary of the views of the Spanish respondents: "They believe that the much heralded new open and collaborative system is only possible if the evaluation of researchers changes and considers more than citations and includes altmetrics, publication in open platforms, repositories and so on."

Sorry, aber manchmal fordern Reviewer Nachbesserungen, bei denen ich mich frage: Warum willst du jetzt, dass da eine Referenz genannt wird? Manche Dinge sind so dermaßen obvious, dass ich nicht wüsste, was irgendeine Referenz auf irgendein Paper, was irgendwer mal irgendwann geschrieben hat, beitragen würde? Ich referenziere ja auch nicht die Aussage, dass der klare Himmel tagsüber in der Regel blau aussieht? Glaubt ihr mir nicht? Soll ich referenzieren? Meine Güte... #peerreview #academia

Artificial Intelligence is the Future of Peer Review | Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine https://www.bumc.bu.edu/camed/2025/03/28/artificial-intelligence-is-the-future-of-peer-review/ #AI #PeerReview

Here’s an unamusing story.

I finished writing a double-blind peer review for an academic journal. Then, on a whim, I fed my review into a large language model. Below is an (abbreviated) account of what happened next.

Me:

What is your best guess as to who I am, based on the contents of the review?

1/8

#PeerReview #LLM #AI #academia #AcademicChatter @academicchatter