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Assessing the Peer Reviewers’ Openness (PRO) Initiative from the Perspective of PRO Signatories
[Excerpts taken from the preprint “’Because it is the Right Thing to Do’: Taking Stock of the Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative” by Maike Dahrendorf et al., posted at PsyArXiv Preprints] “Although the practice of publicly sharing data and code appears…
Read MoreREED: How You, as a Reviewer, Can Encourage Journals to Become More Transparent
I am a member of the Peer Reviewers Openness (PRO) Initiative. The Pro Initiative is based on the idea that reviewers have the power to get journals to become more transparent. In particular, they encourage reviewers to request data and…
Read MoreAt the Journal Nature, Peer Reviewers Have the Right To…
[From an editorial published in Nature entitled, “Referees should exercise their rights”] “At Nature, we recognize that our peer reviewers have certain ‘rights’. One of the most well known is the right to anonymity. Less widely known is that referees have the…
Read MoreSharing Data Made Easy
In a recent post (“Open data for the busy researcher”), Richard D. Morey suggests an easy way to share data. The hardest part is getting started. The following steps make it easy to “ease in” to the process of making…
Read MoreThe Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative (Part 2): Get the App!
Tom Hardwicke, a post-doctoral research fellow at the Meta-Research Innovation Center (METRICS) at Stanford, has written an app to collect and summarize reviewers’ experiences with encouraging data transparency when they review for journals. Hardwicke describes his app as follows: “The PRO…
Read MoreThe Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative (Part 1): Storm Brewing Within the American Psychological Association
[From the article “Peer-review activists push psychology journals towards open data” at nature.com] “An editor on the board of a journal published by the prestigious American Psychological Association (APA) has been asked to resign in a controversy over data sharing…
Read MoreYouTube Video of Conference Session on Open Science
Earlier this month, the Psychonomic Society meetings held a session on Open Science. The session was recorded and is available on YouTube (click here). It consisted of four presentations. — “The Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative” by RICHARD MOREY of Cardiff…
Read MoreChanging the World, One Peer Review at a Time
A new initiative calls for journal reviewers to ask editors to request authors to provide data and supporting code/documentation before they agree to review the manuscript. From The Peer Reviewers Openness Initiative: “We suggest that … reviewers make open practices a pre-condition…
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