👏 Again we'd like to thank our authors (@aidybarnett.bsky.social, @nicolewhite.bsky.social, @tayacollyer.bsky.social), reviewers (Catherine Victoria Bunce, J.L. Hutton) and editors (Kathryn Zeiler, @stephenpinfield.bsky.social) for their contributions
2️⃣ After the initial review, the authors returned to MetaROR for a second round. Reviewers believe that their concerns have been addressed, though one of them still prefers the author to drop three references.
👇 Read the 2nd evaluation round, incl. reviews, assessment and full article now on MetaROR
👏 Aside from the author, we also extend thanks to reviewer Andrew Gelman and our editor Kathryn Zeiler.
Today, author @tomhardwicke.bsky.social argues "that without safeguards, Synchronous Robustness Reports could inadvertently create more confusion than clarity about robustness.
The reviewer, among other things, suggests distinguishing between different types of reports.
👇 Read it now on MetaROR
👏 Our thanks go out to the authors (Steffen Lemke, Isabella Peters), reviewers (including Emanuel Kulczycki) and editor (@ludowaltman.bsky.social)
🔓 Our latest article presents an analysis of bronze open access publications in the Web of Science database.
Reviewers did not identify major weaknesses, calling it solid, timely & sound, and suggested expanding the discussion on the concept of bronze OA.
👇 Read the full evaluation now on MetaROR
🤝 We are happy to announce another new partner journal: @jcre.bsky.social
The Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics "aims for articles that comment on or replicate previously published articles in economics & closely related disciplines"
👇 See our full list of partners on our website
👏 A big thank you to our authors (@helenedraux.bsky.social, Briony Fane, @dwh.bsky.social, @jwastl.bsky.social, @pslewis.bsky.social, Molly Morgan Jones, Pablo Roblero, @jameswilsdon.bsky.social), reviewers, and editors ( @aidybarnett.bsky.social, Kathryn Zeiler) for their contributions
🇬🇧 Our latest paper "uses broad bibliometrics to compare the STEM and SHAPE sectors over time in the UK, with comparisons to other countries"
Reviewers find it timely & useful, yet suggest a different analytical approach as well as a tighter definition of SHAPE
👇 Find the full evaluation on MetaROR
🤝 MetaROR is happy to announce Replication Research as its new partner journal!
@r2journal.bsky.social is an interdisciplinary journal for replication research focusing on reproductions, close replications and conceptual replications.
👇 See our full list of partners on our website
🙏 We are grateful to our authors (Susana Oliveira Henriques, Narmin Rzayeva, @stephenpinfield.bsky.social and @ludowaltman.bsky.social), our reviewers (Pen-Yuan Hsing and @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy) and our editor (Kathryn Zeiler) for their valuable contributions.
We published a 2nd round of reviews for a paper on preprint review services' "potential to turn peer review into a more transparent and rewarding experience and to improve publishing and peer review workflows"
Reviewers see improvements while still highlighting a potential issue.
👇 Read on MetaROR
🤝 MetaROR is happy to announce Psychology, Public Policy, & Law as its partner. @pppl-journal.bsky.social "provides a forum to critically evaluate contributions of psychology & related disciplines to public policy & legal issues & vice versa."
👇 See our list of partners metaror.org/partner-jour...
This article was presented at @stienid2025.bsky.social and came to MetaROR as part of a collaboration between the conference and our platform. Stay tuned for more STI-ENID contributions to appear here!
👏 We want to thank our authors (@aurakivilaakso.bsky.social, Henna Moore, Johanna Kolhinen), reviewers (Isabella Peters, Marta Natalia Wróblewska) and editor (@ludowaltman.bsky.social) for their contributions
For the University of Helsinki's comprehensive research assessment, researchers designed a dedicated module to capture interdisciplinarity.
Reviewers called their approach "inspiring" and did not identify major weaknesses, but do provide recommendations.
👇 Read the assessment, reviews & full text
We are now a partner journal of @metaror.bsky.social, @jcre.bsky.social, and The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing). Read the full announcement here: www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/in...
MetaROR’s approach to Crossref DOI registration
Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - MetaROR’s approach
doi.org/10.64000/vfe...
Together with @andre-brasil.bsky.social I just published this blog post about @crossref.bsky.social DOI registration practices for @metaror.bsky.social.
@metaror.bsky.social has made some major decisions about its deployment of DOIs:We will mint separate DOIs for peer-reviewed preprints using the 'article' reference type. @ludowaltman.bsky.social and André Brasil lay out our reasoning here: www.crossref.org/blog/innovat...
Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - MetaROR’s approach
https://metaror.org/innovation-in-scientific-publishing-and-its-implications-for-crossref-doi-registration-practices-metarors-approach/
Publication bias poses a serious challenge to clarity and precision in scientific research & meta-analyses. This article by Paweł Lenartowicz poses a way to deal with this: the Likelihood Ratio Test for Publication Bias.
👇 Read the editorial assessment, peer reviews, and full article on MetaROR now
🙏 We thank the authors (@lutzb.bsky.social, Christian Leibel), reviewers (Simon Wakeling, Paul Wouters) and editor (@ludowaltman.bsky.social) for their contributions
Our latest article argues that citation noise "represents an [...] underexplored challenge in citation analysis".
Reviewers appreciate the fresh/innovative approach but question its conceptual underpinning: can citation accuracy be determined objectively?
👇 Read the assessment, reviews & full text
Really great to see this paper get published with our partner #JDIS after being reviewed at MetaROR!
@metaror.bsky.social is now 1 year old 🎉
In our first year: 28 articles evaluated, 59 expert reviewers, most reviews published ahead of target, 9 partner journals, and growing visibility across conferences & media.
A strong start for community-owned, open peer review: metaror.org/metaror-turn...
That's great news, Serhii! Congratulations on the JDIS acceptance 👏
🤝 We have also launched partnerships with 9 journals, who are formally committed to base its publication decisions fully or partially on review reports published by MetaROR.
We'd like to thank these journals for their trust and look forward to continued collaboration together!
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🙏 Of course, we're grateful to all contributing editors, authors & reviewers.
Special thanks to @aschniedermann.bsky.social, @serhiinazarovets.bsky.social, @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy, @hldejonge.bsky.social & @jeroenson.bsky.social whose valuable feedback we mentioned in the piece.
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🎈 Time flies! Exactly one year ago today @rorinstitute.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social launched MetaROR, a platform to publish metaresearch through the publish-review-curate approach.
Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers.
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Discussion about next steps for MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social A partnership between @aimosinc.bsky.social and @rorinstitute.bsky.social
Led by @alexh.bsky.social and @aidybarnett.bsky.social
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