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Open Peer Review In Scientific Publishing: A Web Mining Study Of Peerj Authors And Reviewers, Peiling Wang, Sukjin You, Manasa Rath, Dietmar Wolfram
Open Peer Review In Scientific Publishing: A Web Mining Study Of Peerj Authors And Reviewers, Peiling Wang, Sukjin You, Manasa Rath, Dietmar Wolfram
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Purpose: To understand how authors and reviewers are accepting and embracing Open Peer Review (OPR), one of the newest innovations in the open science movement.
Design: This research collected and analyzed data from the Open Access journal PeerJ over its first three years (2013-2016). Web data were scraped, cleaned, and structured using several Web tools and programs. The structured data were imported into a relational database. Data analyses were conducted using analytical tools as well as programs developed by the researchers.
Findings: PeerJ, which supports optional OPR, has a broad international representation of authors and referees. Approximately 73.89% …