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Problems with open participation in peer review

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  • J. A. García

    (Universidad de Granada)

  • Rosa Rodriguez-Sánchez

    (Universidad de Granada)

  • J. Fdez-Valdivia

    (Universidad de Granada)

Abstract

In this letter, we study an open participation model of peer review in which potential reviewers choose whether to review a manuscript, at a cost, without a formal invitation. The outcome is a compromise among the reviewers’ recommendations. Here we show that the equilibrium number of reviewers in the public peer review is small, their recommendations are extreme, and the outcome is likely to be random when the compromise is the median of the reviewers’ recommendations.

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  • J. A. García & Rosa Rodriguez-Sánchez & J. Fdez-Valdivia, 2017. "Problems with open participation in peer review," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 112(3), pages 1881-1885, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:112:y:2017:i:3:d:10.1007_s11192-017-2445-4
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2445-4
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