Further details: One of the largest peer review reports of it’s time combining years’ of data from Clarivate Analytic’s, data-driven analysis from Publons’ cross-publisher peer review platform, and survey responses from ~12,000 researchers globally.
Further Details: Hosted by @womeninmedchat, Dr. Goodman and Mr. Williams answer questions about their recent publication “The Role of Gender in Publication in The Journal of Pediatrics 2015-2016: Equal Reviews, Unequal Opportunities.” The article is available here. Follow #WomenInMedicine.
Who: Dr. Theodora Bloom, BMJ. And Dr. Bahar Mehmani, Elsevier.
Further Details: During this session speakers will talk about trends in peer review and the importance of transparency, recognition and diversity and inclusion in peer review.
Further details: Areas for discussion will include issues surrounding gender, underrepresented minorities and country bias – both explicit and implicit, as well as more profession-specific issues such as the inclusion of early-career researchers in peer review and the gender gap in authorship. Full details including registration here.
Further details: This is the first of two webinars we are hosting to celebrate Peer Review Week 2018. Learn about how ORCID is helping increase recognition for peer review, including some of the innovative ways our members are using ORCID in peer review.
What: Article – Why Use the Double-Blind Peer Review Process?
Further details: Learn what IGI Global’s peer review process looks like, and why the international academic publisher uses the double-blind peer review process for their publications. Visit IGI Global’s newsroom to read more.
Further Details: The webinar speakers will touch on the importance of diversity and inclusion in their organizations as well as various practical approaches that others can use to help diversify their own peer reviewer communities. Full details and regististration here.
Further details: Editage trainer Dr. Wickham has extensive experience of working with authors as well as peer reviewers. During this webinar, Dr. Wickham will discuss 10 questions authors frequently ask about peer review, and will share valuable insights, tips, and guidelines to help authors deal with peer review more confidently.
Further Details: What does the peer review landscape look like today? Is it getting better or worse? And who’s actually doing all the peer review, anyway? In this live session, Andrew Preston will introduce some of the key findings from the inaugural Global State of Peer Review report from Publons — drawing back the curtain to bring greater transparency and understanding to the current state of scholarly peer review. Tune in and come prepared for live questions and discussion.
Further Details: Maha Bali will present a session covering academic gatekeeping and bias in peer review and discussing different approaches such as single, double blind and open peer review.
Further Details: Join to hear members of the xPub journals submission and peer review platform community discuss their organizations’ unique approaches to Peer Review and Diversity and Inclusion in review. Further, this group of diverse organizations will discuss how they are working together using Open Source infrastructure as facilitated by Coko to advance peer review workflow. Time for Q&A will be included. Register here.
Further Details: This draft manifesto was the response to a workshop titled “Resilience Through Diversity” held at R2R in February 2018. This session aims to provide an introduction to the main elements of the manifesto with time for Q&A and feedback/comments. Due to space limitations, please pre-register here.
What: Wiley #PeerReviewWeek18 webinar – Why publish a Registered Report?
Further details: Hear from Nature Research and BMC journal editors about why you should get involved in peer reviewing and participate in a discussion on diversity and inclusion in peer review. Full details including registration here.
Further details: Join us for a half-day conference on peer review with industry experts from Wiley, the American Chemical Society, Cambridge University Press, the Workplace Equity Project, and Research Square! Authors will learn about diversity issues, challenges with speed in peer review, and open peer review. Participants will also hear about initiatives that are being implemented and technologies that are being explored to improve the peer review process.
Further Details: During this session, Dr Haseeb Md Irfanullah will discuss the challenges faced in peer review within Southern Asia and how these challenges can by overcome through diversity and inclusion, focusing on women and youth.
Dr Haseeb Md Irfanullah will talk about the inclusion of Southern Asia in the global peer review landscape and the inherent challenges that comes with it, as well as the roles the North and South can play to tackle those challenges.
Further details: this is the first of two identical 1h webinars held during peer review week covering the first 4 of the 10 modules of the Publons Academy. Learn about the peer review process, managing bias and conflicts of interest, and how to structure a peer review report. Attendees will receive a special code to fast-track their way to graduation in the Publons Academy.
Further details: this is the second of two identical 1h webinars held during peer review week covering the first 4 of the 10 modules of the Publons Academy. Learn about the peer review process, managing bias and conflicts of interest, and how to structure a peer review report. Attendees will receive a special code to fast-track their way to graduation in the Publons Academy.
Further details: In line with the theme of Peer Review Week 2018, in this webinar, Dr. Wickham will talk about why diversity and inclusion are important in peer review and what are some of the concerns we should be prepared to address when trying to work towards greater diversity and inclusion in peer review.
Further details: IntechOpen is celebrating our editors and authors and the role they play in shaping academic books.
We invite you to find out more about the extremes of life in microgravity and in subpolar seabeds, and about how to ensure a diversity of voices in academic publishing. We will raise a glass to our authors and editors who contribute their research, time and ideas to open access books.
Further details: Join our live webinar as we discuss diversity and inclusion in peer review and explore the issues and challenges facing the scholarly community. We will examine how increasing diversity at the editorial board level may help close the gender gap in peer review.
Further details: This is the second of two webinars we are hosting to celebrate Peer Review Week 2018. Learn about how ORCID is helping increase recognition for peer review, including some of the innovative ways our members are using ORCID in peer review.
Further Details: AGU has been exploring gender bias in acceptance and peer review participation in their journals, committees; and awards and other leadership selection processes. It is also starting a larger ethics, equity, and diversity center and resource for the community. This discussion will overview some of the lessons learned from this experience and analysis, include discussion of other recent studies and provide an opportunity for participants to ask live questions.
The Acquisitions Editorial and Journals Committees of the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) will host a conversation about diversity and inclusion in peer review at 1pm (EDT) on September 20.
Participants will frankly discuss the factors and considerations that go into selecting peer reviewers, the challenges of increasing diversity, the differences in the process of selecting peer reviewers for journals v. books, the similarities and differences between STEM and HSS peer review, and other issues relating to the goal of creating fair and legitimate peer review processes that stand the test of time and scholarly rigor. Presenters will include Christie Harvey, director, Princeton University Press; Enrique Lamadrid, author, translator, peer reviewer, and administrator, University of New Mexico; Emily Taylor, journals manager. Ohio State University Press; and Clark Whitehorn, executive editor, University of New Mexico Press.
Viewers can join at https://aupresses.adobeconnect.com/peerreviewweek/ and use the chat box to pose questions of our discussants.
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