As the rate and volume of academic publications has risen, so too has the pressure on journal editors to quickly find reviewers to assess the quality of academic work. In this context the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to boost productivity and reduce workload has received significant attention. Drawing on evidence from an experiment utilising AI to learn and assess peer review outcomes, Alessandro Checco, Lorenzo Bracciale, Pierpaolo Loreti, Stephen Pinfield, and Giuseppe Bianchi, discuss the prospects for AI for assisting peer review and the potential ethical dilemmas its application might produce
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Early-career researchers are subject to higher levels of scrutiny than ever before, with publication...
The phrase ‘publish or perish’ suggests that the purpose of academic writing is in and of itself to ...
Is the peer review process simply a means by which errors are identified and corrected? Or is it a p...
The peer review process has been subjected to a steady stream of criticism in recent years. This has...
The current review system for many academic articles is flawed, hindering the publication of excelle...
The shortcomings of the peer review process are well-documented, with it being variously described a...
Open peer review is moving into the mainstream, but it is often poorly understood and surveys of res...
The aim of peer review for research grants and academic hiring boards is to provide expert independe...
One of the first megajournals, PLOS ONE, has played a significant role in changing scholarly communi...
All agree that peer review is an area of scholarly communications that is ripe for innovation. Howev...
As flaws in the peer review process are highlighted and calls for reform become more frequent, it ma...
Ethical issues related to the peer review process are increasingly complex and can be tricky to navi...
Today marks the beginning of Peer Review Week 2017. Here on the Impact Blog, we’ll be featuring post...
Professor Fleur Johns offers 10 rules of thumb that have guided her own reviewing efforts and may pr...
Today, academics must prepare written proposals describing the research they wish to conduct and sub...
Early-career researchers are subject to higher levels of scrutiny than ever before, with publication...
The phrase ‘publish or perish’ suggests that the purpose of academic writing is in and of itself to ...
Is the peer review process simply a means by which errors are identified and corrected? Or is it a p...