1. Course MT08
Perspectives on peer review
Alyssa, Amy, Christine, Daniel, Edward, John, Paige, Sarah, Sherri, Tim

3. What do you think about peer review?

4. Perspectives on problems
Big picture problems
Methodological flaws
Evidence gaps
Holes in the system
Problems with reviewers
Problems with editors or journals
35 problems
What matters most?
What is ‘just life’?

5. Overview
Looking at peer review as an intervention. What population/problem is it aiming to help? Is it well described? What are the outcomes? How do we know it has worked?

6. Navigating peer review
PLATFORMS
Publons
PubPeer
PubPub
PubMed Commons
Peerage of Science
PeerJ Preprints
BioRxiv
TYPES OF PEER REVIEW When review takes place What is assessed Who are the reviewers? Anonymity of authors Anonymity of reviewers Interaction Reader commentary
OPEN PEER REVIEW
Open identities
Open reports
Open participation
Open pre-review manuscripts
Open final-version commenting
Open interaction
Open platforms

7. peerreviewweek.org

8. peerreviewweek.org

9. Challenges How do we know what we’re talking about? What matters most?
How do we navigate the policies and platforms?
How to choose a peer review intervention?