SciTech Daily December 4, 2021 An international team of researchers (France, Italy, Canada, UK) explored the usefulness of the Percentage of Papers by the Most Prolific author (PPMP) and the Gini index (level of inequality in the distribution of authorship among authors) as tools to identify journals that may show favoritism in accepting articles by specific authors. Among the journals with the highest PPMP or Gini index values, where a few authors were responsible for a disproportionate number of publications, a random sample was manually examined, revealing that the most prolific author was part of the editorial board in 60 […]
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Major Physics Publisher Goes Double Blind
American Physical Society September 18, 2020 To increase fairness IOP Publishing (IOPP) has announced a major shift in its peer-review methods, which, they say could offer better chances of impartial evaluation. By the end of 2021, IOPP journals will make their default peer-review option “double-blind”, neither reviewers nor authors know each other’s identities. Most scientific journals operate in single-blind mode: Reviewers know who has written the paper they are scrutinizing, but the authors do not know who the reviewers are. Knowing the authors’ identities could be useful to see a new result within the context of previous work. But this […]