MetaROR

👏 As always, we want to thank the author (@serhiinazarovets.bsky.social), reviewers (Eleonora Dagiene, Leigh-Ann Butler, Ángel Borrego) and editor (@ludowaltman.bsky.social) for their valuable contributions!

The effect of APC discounts on Ukraine's participation in gold open access journals

🔒Our latest study regards "the effect of APC waivers on the participation of Ukrainian researchers in fully Gold OA journals".

The reviewers call it "well-developed", "timely" & "important" while questioning the focus on only 5 publishers.

👇Read the assessment, reviews & author response on MetaROR

Exciting news! @metaror.bsky.social has joined Lifecycle Journal's growing list of evaluation service partners, & will review & assess metaresearch submissions.

Under LJ's innovative model of scholarly communication, research is published first, then openly reviewed.

🔎: lifecyclejournal.org/about/

LCJ aims to revolutionize scholarly communication by putting publishing & evaluation in the community's control. In place of rewards based on publication & journal status with papers as the sole meaningful output, LCJ aims to shift the focus so that doing credible research is itself rewarded.

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📢 MetaROR is excited to announce our partnership with Lifecycle Journal.

We have joined LCJ's growing group of evaluation services and will review and assess metaresearch submissions.

👇 LCJ joins our ever-increasing list of partner journals. Please find the full list in the link below

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Great news from Rogue Scholar!

As briefly referenced in the piece, MetaROR is open to receive scholarly blog posts for peer review (as long as they fit our guidelines: cms.metaror.org/guidelines-a...)

See also this peer-reviewed blog post (& thoughtful author response): metaror.org/kotahi/artic...

Our thanks go to the author (@aidybarnett.bsky.social), reviewers (@denolmo.bsky.social), and editors (Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, Kathryn Zeiler) for their time and valuable contributions 👏

Spelling errors in health and medical abstracts: An observational analysis from 2008 to 2024

📝 Our latest article is on "a large-scale empirical analysis of spelling errors in scientific titles and abstracts".

The reviews "emphasize the paper's novelty & scope" while suggesting "more refinement of its theoretical framing & methodological rigor"

👇 Read the full evaluation now on MetaROR

Drinking from the Firehose? Write More and Publish Less

@csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy had his blog post peer-reviewed on MetaROR and then wrote a thoughtful piece about the experience, in which he also responded to the reviewers.

His piece was already on Upstream (upstream.force11.org/response-to-...) but is now available on MetaROR too 🙏

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Evolution of Peer Review in Scientific Communication

@dkochetkov.bsky.social wrote an elaborate response to his reviewers for one of MetaROR's first articles. Accidentally, the second version of his article, incorporating the feedback, is up on MetaROR too, so we can follow the whole process 👏

metaror.org/kotahi/artic...

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🆕 From now on, MetaROR can also include author responses on its submission pages. You will find them underneath the assessment & reviews.

Have you already been reviewed on MetaROR & want to provide a response? Please contact your editor.

👇 Two of our submissions now include such a response

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👏 As always, we feel very grateful to the author (@dkochetkov.bsky.social ), reviewers (Martin Bush, @denolmo.bsky.social) and editors (@jasonchin.bsky.social, Kathryn Zeiler)

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It's a study which "aims to synthesize the evolution, practices, and outcomes of both conventional and innovative peer review models in scholarly publishing."

According to the reviewers, "the revised manuscript is considerable clearer, more coherent, and substantially improved."

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Peer Review at the Crossroads

When MetaROR launched at the end of last year, we published four articles. One of these has now returned to our platform for another round of peer review.

👇 Read the editorial assessment, reviews & full manuscript text at MetaROR (incl. links to the first version and first round of reviews)

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Discussion at #Metascience2025 about transforming research communication, including a talk by @andre-brasil.bsky.social about the @metaror.bsky.social platform.

@rorinstitute.bsky.social @aimosinc.bsky.social @cwts.nl

👏 Thanks to our authors (Juan Pablo Bascur, @rodrigocostas.bsky.social, @suzanv.bsky.social), reviewers (@dwh.bsky.social, @essepuntato.bsky.social, Verena Weimer) & editors (@alexh.bsky.social, Kathryn Zeiler) for their contribution to (and trust in) MetaROR and the publish-review-curate model!

Use of diverse data sources to control which topics emerge in a science map

Today's MetaROR paper discusses "the use of document data networks to control the topic clustering of a science map" with "rigorous methodology" & "careful presentation".

Reviewers consider it "a valuable contribution to the literature", and provide the authors detailed feedback.

👇 Read on MetaROR

MetaROR flyer

Very grateful to all colleagues in the metascience community who dropped by at the @metaror.bsky.social stand at the recent #Metascience2025 conference. Glad to see the overwhelming interest in the MetaROR platform!

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@rorinstitute.bsky.social @aimosinc.bsky.social @cwts.nl

Judging research on its own merits: How MetaROR supports better research assessment | DORA MetaResearch Open Review (MetaROR), and other publish-review-curate platforms (e.g., Copernicus, eLife, F1000, Open Research Europe, Peer Community In) challenge the current state of scholarly publish...

Innovations in #ScholarlyCommunication and #ResponsibleResearchAssessment need to go hand in hand. New guest post by @jasonchin.bsky.social, @ludowaltman.bsky.social, and Kathryn Zeiler, editors at @metaror.bsky.social, share insights on these connections. Read more👇
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In this blog post we make the case for the @metaror.bsky.social publish-review-curate model, arguing it supports better research assessment, as promoted by DORA and others.

@rorinstitute.bsky.social @aimosinc.bsky.social @cwts.nl

Thank you, #Metascience2025 & everyone who took the time to connect! We're delighted with sharing resources & meaningful connections at the DORA booth! @coarassessment.bsky.social @metaror.bsky.social @ginnybarbour.bsky.social @rnls.bsky.social @scurry.bsky.social @lizziegadd.bsky.social

🙏 We thank the authors (Nicki Lisa Cole, Sven Ulpts, @agataboch.bsky.social, Eva Kormann, Matthew Good, Barbara Leitner and Tony Ross-Hellauer), reviewers ( @adam42smith.bsky.social), and editors (@aidybarnett.bsky.social , Kathryn Zeiler) for their efforts and trust.

Reproducibility and replicability of qualitative research: an integrative review of concepts, barriers and enablers

🖇Today, we look at a paper whose "authors examine reproducibility and replicability in qualitative research". According to the assessment, "both reviewers found the article to be technically sound, interesting, and of likely value to the field."

👇 Read the assessment, reviews & full text on MetaROR

Was very proud to represent MetaROR.org, the new preprint reviewing service for metaresearch (check out the website, we already have several articles with open reviews posted!), with @denolmo.bsky.social (pictured), @ludowaltman.bsky.social, Kathy Zeiler, and André Brasil, all at #metascience2025

Be part of the future and submit your metascience work to MetaROR!

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👏 We thank the authors (Isabel Abedrapo Rosen, Ricardo Hartley Belmar & Pablo Sánchez-Núñez) for trusting MetaROR, and the reviewers (@martateperek.bsky.social, @mfenner.bsky.social) and our editor (@ludowaltman.bsky.social) for their contributions

Open Science governance: the role of persistent identifiers and metadata standards

🆔 What is the role of persistent identifiers and metadata standards in open science governance? Today we publish the assessment, reviews and full text of a paper asking that question.

👇 As always, everything is publicly available on MetaROR
metaror.org/kotahi/artic...

A framework for values-based assessment in promotion, tenure, and other academic evaluations

🎓 Today we publish another evaluation for an article whose authors present a novel method—developed through a series of workshops—for assessing academics.

🙏 Thanks to the authors, reviewers & editors!

👇 Read the full text, reviews & editorial assessment on MetaROR metaror.org/kotahi/artic...

🤝 MetaROR is (once again) happy to announce a new partner: Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.

#AMPPS "publishes innovative developments in research methods, practices and conduct [...] within psychological science".

👇 See our full list of partners on our website

JDIS and MetaROR will collaborate on a special issue: "Fostering SDGs Research through the Lens of Bibliometrics" The deadline for submission is September 15, 2025.

👇 Please find the call for papers in the link below