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Revisiting: The Problem(s) With Credit for Peer Review – Scholarly Kitchen (David Crotty | August 2020)

Posted by saviorteam in Research Integrity on September 1, 2020
Keywords: Journal, Peer review, Research results, Researcher responsibilities
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Last week’s post by Alice Meadows showcased some of the impressive new technologies that are better enabling us to track the work done by researchers, in particular, work that has previously remained somewhat invisible. But even with these abilities in-hand, functional questions still remain about who would grant that credit and what form it would take.

The writer doesn’t mention that doing peer review properly is a way for a researcher to learn more about themselves too. Working as reviewers we have had to read additional papers, go back to the literature and see if we actually understood the topic properly, had to re-acquaint ourselves with some methods and statistical analyses. Peer review done properly is like doing exercise or practising scales on the piano. It makes you better at what you want to do yourself. It allows one to benchmark yourself against the field. While we don’t get paid or recognised for the peer reviews we do but we get so much from doing them.

I was inspired by the comments on Alice’s post to go back and look at The Scholarly Kitchen archives to see how long the conversation over credit for peer review has been going on. The first mention I can find is in this 2009 piece by Phil Davis, looking at a survey done that year by Sense About Science. One of the key takeaways from that survey is that acknowledgement, either in the form of payment or career credit was sought after by more than half of the respondents. So although the conversation probably goes back further, we can definitively say that this has been in discussion for more than ten years now. Systems offering credit for peer review date back to at least 2010, with the proposal for PubCreds, an attempt at privatizing the peer review commons that never got off the ground.
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So I’ll pose the question as we revisit my 2015 post about credit for peer review — are we any closer to realizing it?
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Offering career credit to researchers for performing peer review seems like a no-brainer, right? Peer review is essential for our system of research, and study after study confirms that researchers consider it tremendously important. Funding agencies and journal publishers alike rely on researchers to provide rigorous review to aid in making decisions about who to fund and which papers to publish. On the surface it would seem to make sense to formalize this activity as a part of the career responsibilities of an academic researcher. But as one delves into the specifics of creating such a system, some major roadblocks arise.

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