Promotion of scientific publications’ quality is a shared responsibility of Authors,
Editors, Peers and Publishers [
[1]
]. Peer Review system, which has been understood as a major quality control instrument
of scientific publications, has been under severe criticism for at least one decade
[e.g.
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- Fanelli D.
- Ioannidis J.P.A.
- Goodman S.
Improving the integrity of published science: an expanded taxonomy of retractions
and corrections.
Eur. J. Clin. Invest. 2018; 48https://doi.org/10.1111/eci.12898
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], in part due to an alarming (and growing) rate of corrections and retractions [e.g.
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]. Open evaluations have been proposed as an alternative [
- Fanelli D.
- Ioannidis J.P.A.
- Goodman S.
Improving the integrity of published science: an expanded taxonomy of retractions
and corrections.
Eur. J. Clin. Invest. 2018; 48https://doi.org/10.1111/eci.12898
[9]
] while other supplementary systems have been used in the last years such as Post
Publications Peer Review (PPPR) [
[10]
,
[11]
] and many initiatives (e.g. F1000,ResearchGate, PubPeer, Publons and PubMed Commons
[
[10]
,
[12]
]) have been taken aiming to improve the peer reviewing quality and to make errors
visible and, ultimately, corrected.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Published online: November 10, 2018
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June 6,
2018
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