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👏 Congratulations and thanks go out to our authors (@aidybarnett.bsky.social, Nicole White, @tayacollyer.bsky.social), reviewers (Catherine Victoria Bunce, J.L. Hutton) and editors (Kathryn Zeiler, @stephenpinfield.bsky.social) for their contributions

The varying perceptions of a statistician’s value, from “critical” to “not needed for 99.9% of applications”: A national study of human research ethics committees

A qualified statistician's review can improve study designs. But who has access to one? Our new article surveys this among Australian human research ethics committees.

Reviewers liked the article yet were disappointed by the response rate. They suggested minor changes.

👇Read it now on MetaROR

👏 Apart from the author, we would, as always, also like to thank the reviewers (Nico Formanek) and editors (@aidybarnett.bsky.social, @ludowaltman.bsky.social)

Establishing trust in automated reasoning

📠 Why should we trust automated reasoning systems? That's the question posed in our latest article by @khinsen.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy.

The two reviewers generally praise the ideas but ask for more detail and share some concerns.

👇 Read the editorial assessment, reviews and full paper at MetaROR

The MetaROR Publish-Review-Curate Model: our experience as authors | Open Science NL

Thank you Hans for sharing your positive experience with @metaror.bsky.social, using your reviews and assessment to publish at our partner journal, Quantitative Science Studies: www.openscience.nl/en/cases/the...

🔓 It's great to see authors sharing their experiences with publishing on MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) — our open review platform for metascience using the publish–review–curate model: www.openscience.nl/en/cases/the...

👏 To our authors (Narmin Rzayeva, @stephenpinfield.bsky.social, @ludowaltman.bsky.social), reviewers, and editors (@jabyrnesci.bsky.social, Kathryn Zeiler): congratulations and thank you for your contributions!

Adoption of Preprinting Across Scientific Disciplines and Geographical Regions (1991-2023)

⌛ How is preprinting adopted over time across disciplines and regions? Our latest article attempts to answer this.

The reviewers praised the comprehensive analysis & clear presentation, while requesting more background information & addressing data availability issues.

👇 Read it now on MetaROR

MetaROR will be present at the @stienid2025.bsky.social conference this week!

We are excited for all the presentations, discussions and inspiration to come and we would be more than happy to greet you at our stand 👋

www.stienid2025.org

This great new initiative highlights lots of interesting research and initiatives, including (on p.40) a primer on what MetaROR is doing, by @andre-brasil.bsky.social

👏 Congratulations to everyone involved for producing such a great magazine!

Great question!

Indeed @metaror.bsky.social and @peercommunityin.bsky.social have a lot in common, and in fact the MetaROR model was partly inspired by the great work done by Peer Community In (PCI).

However, there are also various differences between MetaROR and PCI. Let me highlight two of them.

👇 MetaROR is very proud and excited to announce this new partnership with @plosbiology.org 🙏

As part of this, "PLOS Biology will formally consider meta-research articles that are peer-reviewed on the MetaROR platform", in order to "improve transparency" and "[prevent] futile cycles of peer review".

👏 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