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Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · Sep 4

The report also states that review invite acceptance has decreased in ScholarOne submission system from ~48% in 2018 to ~34% in 2025

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Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · Sep 4

Silverchair released a report on the Future of Peer Review - www.silverchair.com/news/tech-tr... indicating that reviewers are largely in favor and looking forward to transparent peer review. However data on survey methods, invites and response rate is lacking.

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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · Sep 3

NEW POST: NIH explores capping APCs: Let’s look at the evidence! We used data of NIH funded from 2025, and found that APCs for a few as 7% journals (or 6% of papers) would be fully covered by a $2K cap, 25% of journals (or 21% of papers) by a $3K cap. Read more! www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n...

NIH explores capping APCs: Let’s look at the evidence

by Stefanie Haustein, Eric Schares, Juan Pablo Alperin, Flavia Camargo, Lisa Matthias, Lucía Céspedes, Constance Poitras & Dorothea Strecker On April 30 2025, the US National Institutes of Heal…

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Peer Review Congress #PRC10 @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · Sep 3

In a non-randomized comparison of published (open) vs unpublished #PeerReview from 233 @ElsevierNews @SpringerNature journals 2016-2021, open reviews were longer (median 22 vs 17 sentences) & had higher information scores (0.52 vs 0.46)
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Women’s reports had a higher information score than men’s reports (difference, 6.3%), and reviewers from non-Western institutions had lower scores than those from Western institutions (difference, −6.0%).

Open peer review reports were longer than traditional unpublished reports, with the greatest differences found in the number of suggestion and solution sentences. These results suggest that increasing the transparency of peer review could lead to more detailed reports that focus on manuscript improvement.

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Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · Aug 20

Join us for the 7th Reproducibility Rounds: 𝐍𝐨𝐧-𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥-𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡:
𝐀 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲, on September 16 at 9 am PT | 12 pm ET | 6 pm CET, by Nichole E Carlson. Registration at stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · Aug 14

Register for the 3rd Stanford Colloquium on Biomedical Research Rigor and Reproducibility - October 20th 2025. Speakers: Nicole Kleinstreuer (NIH), Marcus Munafò, Geeta Swamy, etc... Agenda and registration at web.cvent.com/event/02bac8...

Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · Aug 13

This year's peer review week is happening September 15 to 19, and the theme is “Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era” @PeerRevWeek. Follow the updates and list of events on peerreviewweek.net/events.php

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Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · Aug 11

New research - Differences Between Nursing Studies Posted as Preprints on medRxiv or SSRN and Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals. Similarly to previous research, we find that only 4% (2 out of 51) had changes in their primary conclusions. doi.org/10.1111/inr....

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Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · Aug 7

@bmehmani.bsky.social and mine work (and interview) is featured in the Nature's News on Peer Review - nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02457-2. Reminder that for 2,857 Elsevier journals, Md 7 reviewers are invited, 2 accept, within Md 9 days of being invited - see: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · Jun 3

Update - Elsevier's Peer Review Workbench with peer review reports of 18,092,870 manuscripts from 2,857 journals, Md 2 reviewers (Md invited 7, 9 days for accepting invite), absolute agreement in round 1 - 26% across disciplines, Md 22% acceptance rate. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · May 30

SN releases a white paper on RI - survey on 7,871 researchers, showing 21% of USA respondents saying their institutions do not provide research integrity training, and 22% not being aware if it does. figshare.com/articles/onl...

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Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · May 27

Peer Review Week will be held from 15 to 19 September 2025. Cast your vote till May 31st on which of the below should be this year's theme. forms.gle/RJSWd78aK8xq...

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Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · May 14

Join us next Tuesday 9AM PT for an online webinar: Estimating Replicability of Lab Biology Research at a National Level: Results and Lessons from the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative - stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · Apr 30

JOIN US! Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity on Preprints and Open Peer Review. Multi-year project. Come with work @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @mariomalicki.bsky.social, me, and the rest of #ScholCommLab. Apply by May 23rd!

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Hiring: Postdoctoral Fellow on Preprints and Open Peer Review - Scholarly Communications Lab | ScholCommLab

Postdoctoral Fellowship on Preprints and Open Peer Review Description The Scholarly Communications Lab (ScholCommLab) at Simon Fraser University is seeking […]

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Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · May 1

Join us on May 20, 9 am (PT) for the 6th Reproducibility Rounds - 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐚𝐛 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥: 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞. Registration at: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · Apr 10

New preprint - we analyzed 1,091 trials affiliated with 6 California Universities, with primary completion dates 2014-2017 (almost all before legal mandates) - 46% had summary results reported in ClinicalTrials.gov, 72% had results in journals. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · Mar 17

Presented at @humboldtuni.bsky.social IBI Research Seminar today to introduce the #ScholCommLab and of course I used some bibliometric networks to demonstrate our collaborations and knowledge base..

Co-authorship network based on 194 works published by lab members 2017-2025. Node size reflects number of works, edges represents collaboration strength. Node color signals (former) lab membership.

Bibliographic coupling network of 194 works published by lab members 2017-2025. Node size reflects number of citations, edges represents bibliographic strength. Node color signals cluster affiliation.

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Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · Mar 11

Next Tuesday - March 18, free webinar at 9 am (PT): 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐚 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 (𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐃𝐈): 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬, Registration at: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

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Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · Mar 6

Join us on March 18, 9 am (PT) for the 5th Reproducibility Rounds - 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐚 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 (𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐃𝐈): 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬, Registration at: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · Mar 4

Postdoctoral positions in the social sciences and humanities (with particular emphasis on philosophy, sociology of science, and 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞) for US and Canada - implications of AI for the science apply.sloan.org/prog/call_fo...

Call for submissions: Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowship -

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Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · Feb 12

Join us Next Tuesday, 9 am PT time, for 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 webinar, with speakers from Reproducibility for Everyone, Community for Rigor, and Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training - stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · Feb 5

METRICS Stanford is accepting applications for its 2025-2026 postdoctoral fellowship in meta-research: metrics.stanford.edu/postdoctoral.... The deadline for applications is March 15, 2025, the position is expected to start at October 1, 2025.

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Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · Jan 31

Join us on February 18, 9 am (PT) for the 4th 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 - 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬, with speakers from R4E, C4R, and FORTT. Registration at: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · Jan 15

Next Tuesday January 21, 9 am (PT) free Webinar 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬: Replicating 193 Preclinical Cancer Biology Experiments: Lessons, Surprises, and Future Directions. Registration at: t.co/nqbTfOvVnz

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Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social · Dec 23

Join us on January 21, 9 am (PT) for the 3rd 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬: Replicating 193 Preclinical Cancer Biology Experiments: Lessons, Surprises, and Future Directions. Registration at: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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