Credit: Javier Zayas/Getty Articles with publicly available peer review reports are less likely to be retracted than those without public reports, according to a study. The authors say this could, in some cases, reflect greater trust among researchers who choose to make the review process transparent. The analysis, published on the MetaArXiv preprint server earlier
Paying reviewers led to faster first editorial decisions and higher quality reviews in a trial in the journal open biology.Credit: Phimwilai Kitsuriya/Getty Science depends on peer review, but the process can be delayed. To solve this problem, in July 2024, the magazine open biology He tried something unconventional: paying his reviewers. In the six-month experiment,
When Miroslav Terzić was writing his new film in 2023, titled “3 Weeks Later,” a mass shooting occurred in a Serbian school, the country where the director was born. “It was terrible when you realize that what you are writing about is happening somewhere right now; it’s not a movie, it’s real life,” Terzić says.