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Open Peer Review in Scientific Publishing: A Web Mining Study of PeerJ Authors and Reviewers

Open Access
|Sep 2017

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Model of OPR implemented in PeerJ.
Model of OPR implemented in PeerJ.

Figure 2

PeerJ articles and meta sidebar link to peer review history.
PeerJ articles and meta sidebar link to peer review history.

Figure 3

PeerJ review history screenshot.
PeerJ review history screenshot.

Figure 4

A comparison of articles with and without full peer view history.
A comparison of articles with and without full peer view history.

Figure 5

Comparison of signed or anonymous review reports over three-month intervals 2013–2016.
Comparison of signed or anonymous review reports over three-month intervals 2013–2016.

Figure 6

Delays in peer review and delays in publication.
Delays in peer review and delays in publication.

Figure 7

Boxplot of the first round of review time taken to submit report.
Boxplot of the first round of review time taken to submit report.

Figure 8

Time taken to submit review reports.
Time taken to submit review reports.

Acceptance of the types of reviews for articles by versions_

VersionAnonymousBothSignedExternal

Portable review reports were used by the editors.

Total
1250613
22474231454819
393182560331
4161811045
506006
Total359633212101,214
Percentage29.8252.5717.61

Review length of the first round of all articles (Na = 1,537; Ns = 1,183)_

SentencesTokens
AnonymousSignedAnonymousSigned
Mean28.0928.81477.16508.41
Std. Dev.23.7424.07389.87427.25
Median2222368394
Min1187
Max2751672,6043,747
T test Prob.0.4320.050

Ranking and percentage of the countries whose authors participating in OPR_

RankingCountry of originNumber of articlesCountry of originNumber of articles with published review reportsPercentage
1USA700USA53676.57%
2UK254UK20279.53%
3Australia136Australia9872.06%
4Canada100Canada6969.00%
5China96Germany6773.63%
6Germany91China5860.42%
7Spain61Spain4980.33%
8France59France4576.27%
9Netherlands50Netherlands4182.00%
10Japan49Japan3163.27%

First round of review of the articles (each had both signed and anonymous reports)_

SentencesTokens
AnonymousSignedAnonymousSigned
Mean27.7127.90478.93495.25
Std. Dev.21.8324.16385.02431.15
Median22.0021.00382.00372.00
Min1197
Max1431672,6043,435
T test Prob.0.8740.436
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20309/jdis.201625 | Journal eISSN: 2543-683X | Journal ISSN: 2096-157X
Language: English
Page range: 60 - 80
Submitted on: Jul 30, 2016
Accepted on: Aug 30, 2016
Published on: Sep 1, 2017
Published by: Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Science Library
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2017 Peiling Wang, Sukjin You, Rath Manasa, Dietmar Wolfram, published by Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Science Library
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.