What is it about?

This paper will propose a new system that produces a metric that is an indicator of the level of peer review conducted prior to the publication of scholarly material. Once a paper is accepted the calculation is conducted and a “peer review evaluation” metric, or “Peer Review Evaluation Score” (pre-SCORE) is available.

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Why is it important?

PRE-score would prove beneficial to all engaged parties (authors, publishers, readers, libraries). Authors will know that their work is being evaluated by a trustworthy publication and by experts in their field. Legitimate, ethical publishers will be recognized as such. Readers would have the ability to filter out material which was not properly vetted, and libraries/consortia would have further assurance that their limited funds are spent wisely.

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This idea evolved into PRE, a service to validate peer review without the metric piece. Interesting that with all the talk of transparency in peer review etc. Most publishers are still hesitant to open up the black box even a little bit.

Mr Adam Etkin
Springer Publishing Co

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This page is a summary of: A New Method and Metric to Evaluate the Peer Review Process of Scholarly Journals, Publishing Research Quarterly, December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s12109-013-9339-y.
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