RAE Reviewer Development Program

Henrique C. Martins

2025-03-06

RAE & Open Science

Open Data, Open Code, Open Peer Review….
Editorials:
- Mendes-da-Silva (2024): Discuss OS within the business community.
- Martins e Mendes-da-Silva (2024): Define some guidelines.

RAE & Open Science

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Open Peer Review (OPR)

Open peer review (OPR) is an umbrella term for a number of overlapping ways that peer review models can be adapted in line with the ethos of Open Science, including making reviewer and author identities open, publishing review reports and enabling greater participation in the peer review process. (Ross-Hellauer et al., 2017)

Open Peer Review (OPR)

Note

It is a peer review process that, unlike the traditional approach, aims to bring transparency to: 1) the content of reviews for articles submitted to academic journals, 2) the identity of reviewers, and 3) written responses from authors.

Typically, it is a voluntary process for reviewers.
For authors, it is mandatory if reviewers agree to participate.
The review remains blinded, and transparency is implemented after the article is accepted.

In practice, three “levels”:

No sharing of identity or content.
Sharing of content.
Sharing of both content and identity.

Open Peer Review (OPR)

Authors must adhere to OPR at the time of submission.
After the article is accepted, reviewers are invited to choose one of the levels.
RAE does not alter the content of the reviews under any circumstances (even typographical errors are maintained).
- Only comments that violate ethical standards (e.g., derogatory or defamatory remarks) may be edited (omitted) from the report.
- In such cases, it will be explicitly stated that parts of the report have been edited.
- So far, no such cases have occurred.

Open Peer Review (OPR)

THANK YOU!

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Henrique C. Martins