Does it take too long to publish research?

Powell, Kendall

doi:10.1038/530148a

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“…Furthermore, companies publishing predatory journals often advertise their rapid peer review and fast‐track publication processes, citing that these take hours or days and rarely request any revisions, which is in direct opposition to the practices followed by prestigious journals 27, 28. The lack of rigorous peer review process is accompanied by a lack of the standards and good practices that have been established by the scientific community 29.…”

Section: Characteristics Of Predatory Journals and Impact On Daily Workmentioning

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Problems and challenges of predatory journals

Richtig

Berger

Lange‐Asschenfeldt

et al. 2018

Acad Dermatol Venereol

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The companies publishing predatory journals are an emerging problem in the area of scientific literature as they only seek to drain money from authors without providing any customer service for the authors or their readership. These predatory journals try to attract new submissions by aggressive email advertising and high acceptance rates. But in turn, they do not provide proper peer review, and therefore, the scientific quality of submitted articles is questionable. This is important because more and more people, including patients, are reading such journals and rely on the information they provide. Consequently, predatory journals are a serious threat to the integrity of medical science, and it is crucial for scientists, physicians and even patients to be aware of this problem. In this review, we briefly summarize the history of the open access movement, as well as the rise of and roles played by predatory journals. In conclusion, young and inexperienced authors publishing in a predatory journal must be aware of the damage of their reputation, of inadequate peer review processes and that unprofitable journals might get closed and all published articles in that journal might be lost.

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Section: Characteristics Of Predatory Journals and Impact On Daily Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Problems and challenges of predatory journals

Richtig

Berger

Lange‐Asschenfeldt

et al. 2018

Acad Dermatol Venereol

165

112

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“…A recent analysis highlighted that the median review time -the time between submission and acceptance of an article -is around 100 days, with a further 25 days or so spent preparing the work for publication [6]. However, these figures -although still relatively slow -do not include the time researchers spend "shopping around" for a journal to publish their findings.…”

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Ten simple rules for considering preprints

Bourne

Vale

Kiley

2016

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So why make your work available as preprints? There are perceived positives and negatives to disclosing scientific work in the form of a preprint, explored here in the form of 10 Simple Rules. These rules, if they pass review, will appear as part of the PLOS Computational Biology Ten Simple Rules Collection. The rules cover such issues as reward, incentives, speed of dissemination, quality, scooping, and record of priority. You cannot have an article describing preprints, without itself being a preprint!!

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“…The use of these resources by the substantial number of researchers inexperienced in peer reviewing, but interested in getting skilled, could be a way to tackle the needs of the academic community to see effective support for peer reviewing in place, addressing the difficulties that editors face in recruiting and retaining skilled reviewers, 17 and increasing the peer reviewing process speed. 18 The main way researchers start peer reviewing is through direct approaches by editorial boards, whereas about a quarter of current reviewers were invited by their supervisors. 4 Improving the quality of the reviews will improve the quality student does not find a willing supervisor, the academy can provide one.…”

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Where can early career researchers learn how to peer review a scientific paper?

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Reviewers should be experts in a particular field, have the necessary experience and knowledge to evaluate whether the methodology is appropriate, the results accurate, the interpretations reasonable, and the references relevant; 2 whilst being capable of highlighting omissions and suggesting changes to improve readability. 3 Reviewers are expected to alert the editor to any problems they identify, and make recommendations if a paper should be accepted, returned to the authors for revisions or rejected.Finding reviewers is difficult for two-thirds of editors, 4 a situation exacerbated by the increasing number of scientific papers published. 5 Yet, as many as two-thirds of researchers who never peer reviewed would like to. 4 They are motivated to play a part in the academic community, return the assistance and improve the scientific literature. 4 Despite the importance for early career researchers to learn how to peer review, there is a huge lack of such formal training. 6 Several undergraduate and postgraduate programmes do not explicitly teach or provide training on how to review papers. Most early career researchers are left to learn it under the guidance of their supervisors or colleagues, through journal club discussions or simply through trial and error attempts. 7 Studies reported that over half of the reviewers learnt to review once they started to publish papers, by reading the reviews they received of their own submitted manuscripts, while others learnt 'on the job' once writing reviews, 8 or by checking the guidelines that some journals have. 4 Nevertheless, a study found that two-thirds of researchers claim for formal training on peer review. 7 In this article, we identify and describe the different formats of resources available for researchers to learn how to peer review. MethodsWe conducted a web-based search in English using Google, looking for resources that teach how to peer review. In addition, we contacted a purposive sample of twenty authors that published with the terms "peer review" or "early career researchers", enquiring about the resources they were acquainted with and their experience with them.We used a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) framework to analyze the resources directly focused on practical and structured teaching peer review, Abstract Background: The ability to peer review a scientific paper is an important skill for researchers, but many early career researchers do not obtain relevant training. In this article, we aimed to identify and describe the different resources available for researchers to learn how to peer review.Methods: We conducted a web-based search, looking for resources that teach how to peer review. In addition, we contacted authors who published with the terms "peer review" or "early career researchers", enquiring about the resources they were acquainted with. We used a SWOT framework to analyse the resources with a direct focus on practical teaching of peer review and widespread availability.Results: We found seven formats of resources...

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Does it take too long to publish research?

Cited by 230 publications

References 4 publications

Problems and challenges of predatory journals

Problems and challenges of predatory journals

Ten simple rules for considering preprints

Where can early career researchers learn how to peer review a scientific paper?

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