From 11 to 17 September it is held the Peer Review International Week; the review process that takes place before publishing a scientific article. This year the central point is the transparency as a fundamental challenge in peer review processes.
The current context of over-explosion of articles and acceleration in the publication process has led to the emergence of all sorts of delusions in the review, from the case of self-reviewing scientists to publishers who do not review at all the articles they publish.
The panorama is also particularly worrying in Open Access journals, whose review processes have always been in the spotlight, accused by large publishers of being inconsistent and too permissive.
With this in mind, the Peer Review Week proposes a series of activities aimed at promoting transparency in review processes: promotion of ORCID identifiers, COPE ethics recommendations for review, model proposals for the review of Open Access journals, etc.
There are some interesting readings related to peer review:
