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Open Access & Open Science drive change in peer-review

Traditional Peer ReviewWW II – today

Most of todays ~30k journalshighly selective, innovative and

impactful research

~ 40-50’000’000 articles published

1 Editor

2-3

Reviewers

Pre-print servers1991 – today

ArXiv1991: no review, pre-print server

fast

> 1’000’000 articles posted

Impact-Neutral Review2006 – today

BioMed Central journals2003: Impact-Neutral Review

scientifically sound, fast, transparent

> 100’000 articles published

PLOS One2006: Impact-Neutral Review, Mega-journal

scientifically sound, fast

> 100’000 articles published

Frontiers journals2007: Collaborative Peer Review

scientifically sound, fast

interactive, constructive, transparent

> 25’000 articles published

Adopted by many OA journalsScientific Reports

PeerJ

Faculty 1000 Research

…

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48OA JOURNALS

350SPECIALTIES

50’000EDITORS

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Rethinking peer review

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constructive

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Naming

reviewers

Access for all

involved

One rebuttal

guaranteed

Detailed

questionnaire

Real-time

discussion

Post-publication

comments

A comprehensive approach

Reviewers part of

Editorial Board

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