Advantages and disadvantages of open peer review: consensus and dissent in the literature

Objective: the opening of the peer review process is an emerging issue of the open science movement and usually divides opinions in the scientific community, especially among its direct actors such as editors, authors, reviewers. This research aims to identify and analyze the advantages and disadvan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Pedri, Patricia, Araújo, Ronaldo Ferreira
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
Repositorio:Encontros Bibli
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/78583
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/eb/article/view/78583
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Revisão por pares aberta
Vantagens e desvantagens
Comunicação científica
Ciência aberta
Revisão por pares
Open peer review
Advantages and disadvantages
Scholarly communication
Open science
Peer review
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Sumario:Objective: the opening of the peer review process is an emerging issue of the open science movement and usually divides opinions in the scientific community, especially among its direct actors such as editors, authors, reviewers. This research aims to identify and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of open peer review presented in studies published in Portuguese on he subject. Method: this is an exploratory and descriptive bibliographic study, with a qualitative approach. The research corpus consists of articles published in journals or papers presented at academic events, in Portuguese, that address the open peer review system. Initially 360 papers were recovered, but only eleven met the purpose of the present study, which were analyzed. Results: we found four categories (Transparency, Quality, Recognition and Ethics) and 45 considerations between advantages and disadvantages. The number of advantages (36) of open peer review is greater than of disadvantages (9). The ‘Quality’ category is more representative of both the advantages (45%) and the disadvantages (75%). Considerations regarding the fact that OPR brings “More constructive, consistent and coherent comments” prevailed in the mentioned advantages, and others related to “Interference in the relationship between researchers and their academic projects” are more usual in the disadvantages indicated by the literature.Conclusions: eespite the challenges, peer review in the context of open science presents great possibilities to improve scientific production in order to make it more transparent, ethical and participatory and should be considered by the academic community.