Current and Evolving Models of Peer Review Articles uri icon

authors

  • Fresco Santalla, Ana
  • HERNANDEZ PEREZ, ANTONIO

publication date

  • January 2015

start page

  • 373

end page

  • 398

issue

  • 4

volume

  • 67

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0361-526X

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1541-1095

abstract

  • New models of scientific publishing and new ways of practicing peer review have injected a recent dynamism into the scholarly communication system. In this article, we delineate the context of the traditional peer review model, reflect upon some of the first experiences with open peer review and forecast some of the challenges that new models for peer review will have to meet. Our findings suggest that the peer review function has the potential to be divorced from the journal system, so that the responsibility to judge the significance of a paper may no longer fall exclusively to formal reviewers, but may be assessed by the whole readership community.

subjects

  • Library Science and Documentation

keywords

  • revistas científicas; peer review; open peer review; pre-publication review; post-publication review; scholarly publishing; scholarly communication