Mastodawn

Any opinions on #Qeios [0][1] for #OpenPeerReview? Columbia Uni Mailman SchPublicHealth [2] and NYT [3] seem to take it seriously. I'm rather annoyed at #F1000Research , which pressured me for a fast report on v2 of a paper but after 5 months and several reminders hasn't published my review of v2 [4].

Qeios sounds serious. Is it?

[0] https://www.qeios.com/publishing-policy

[1] https://www.qeios.com/recent-articles

[2] https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/new-journal-seeks-reduce-bias-scientific-publishing

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/opinion/peer-review-research-studies.html

[4] https://f1000research.com/articles/11-344/v2

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Laura May, PhD Jul 5, 2023

@boud @academicchatter I've signed up and will be VERY interested if it does end up indexed in Google Scholar next. Wading through the articles up for review though, I had quality concerns: I'm not sure if there's enough appropriate vetting by experts. I also couldn't see a way to FIND relevant papers to review to try out the process, though maybe that's on me.

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Boud Jul 8, 2023

@lauramayphd @academicchatter
1/2
#Qeios states "we promote *post-publication* open evaluation and discussion" [5]. (*emphasis* mine)

I posted a review. In a post-review email, Qeios said: "Qeios papers get... more views & downloads... than preprints posted on other venues, greatly increasing the chances of acceptance for publication by your preferred journals." So is it a *preprint* server?

[5] https://www.qeios.com/about (archive https://archive.today/2023.07.08-132011/https://www.qeios.com/about)

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Boud Jul 8, 2023

@lauramayphd @academicchatter

2/2
It seems that Qeios is fuzzing the line between (i) full open peer review as an alternative to conventional peer review and acceptance/rejection, versus (ii) peer review of preprints that should later be submitted to a conventional journal.

Either (ii) Qeios is a preprint server that encourages open peer review of preprints, or (i) it's a journal with open peer review and fuzzy rejection/acceptance decisions. I don't see how it can ethically be both.

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Boud Jul 8, 2023

@lauramayphd @academicchatter

PS: The interface for providing reviews is horrible. End-of-line characters (both ^M and ^J) are removed, forcing the reviewer to restore them with lots of #WYSIWYG clicking. There's no buttton for allow plain text insertion of a review.