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  1. A billion-dollar donation: estimating the cost of researchers’ time spent on peer review.Alex O. Holcombe, Barnabas Szaszi & Balazs Aczel - 2021 - Research Integrity and Peer Review 6 (1).
    BackgroundThe amount and value of researchers’ peer review work is critical for academia and journal publishing. However, this labor is under-recognized, its magnitude is unknown, and alternative ways of organizing peer review labor are rarely considered.MethodsUsing publicly available data, we provide an estimate of researchers’ time and the salary-based contribution to the journal peer review system.ResultsWe found that the total time reviewers globally worked on peer reviews was over 100 million hours in 2020, equivalent to over 15 thousand years. The (...)
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  • Transparency of peer review: a semi-structured interview study with chief editors from social sciences and humanities.Hans-Joachim Backe & Veli-Matti Karhulahti - 2021 - Research Integrity and Peer Review 6 (1).
    BackgroundOpen peer review practices are increasing in medicine and life sciences, but in social sciences and humanities they are still rare. We aimed to map out how editors of respected SSH journals perceive open peer review, how they balance policy, ethics, and pragmatism in the review processes they oversee, and how they view their own power in the process.MethodsWe conducted 12 pre-registered semi-structured interviews with editors of respected SSH journals. Interviews consisted of 21 questions and lasted an average of 67 (...)
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