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Diversification and Decentralization of Peer Review

Diversification and Decentralization of Peer Review
A research article can be seen as a conversation between scholars. In the past this conversation took place almost exclusively between privileged colleagues, and more recently as part of the anonymous peer review process. Today technology allows this conversation to take place in the open, in forums like preprint servers, and the conversation can be ongoing with post publication commenting. There are multiple providers of “community peer review” offering various services targeted at different parts of the scholarly communications ecosystem, from preprint servers to journal peer review to post-publication commenting. These providers are not only pushing boundaries on how peer review is conducted, many are also expanding what peer reviewers look like, bringing in more diversity and working to train early career researchers. In this session we examine various types of experiments, how these services can help diversify science, and how their efforts are contributing to trust and integrity.
Publication Date
May 2025

47th Annual Meeting (2025)

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Although every year in the scholarly publishing ecosystem is a balancing act of innovation, optimization, and value creation, 2025 is shaping up to be particularly challenging as the pace and scale of change is accelerating more than we’ve ever seen before. There is increasing pressure to provide value to and to meet the incredibly diverse needs of the global research community while maintaining financial health for our own organizations, living our values, and continuing to protect the scholarly record. With AI, open access, integrity, and mistrust frequently dominating the conversation, we are in the midst of an unprecedented shift in both our industry and society as a whole. As always, the SSP community continues to focus on bringing together academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, researchers and countless others with a communal interest and stake in disseminating scholarly information. We look to the 47th Annual Meeting as an opportunity to continue this tradition and welcome all colleagues and community stakeholders.