«I Do Not Have Time»-Is This the End of Peer Review in Public Health Sciences?

doi:10.3389/phrs.2022.1605407

Editorial

. 2022 Nov 17:43:1605407.

doi: 10.3389/phrs.2022.1605407. eCollection 2022.

«I Do Not Have Time»-Is This the End of Peer Review in Public Health Sciences?

Nino Künzli^{1

2

3}, Anke Berger^{1

3}, Katarzyna Czabanowska⁴, Raquel Lucas⁵, Andrea Madarasova Geckova⁶, Sarah Mantwill⁷, Olaf von dem Knesebeck⁸

Affiliations

¹ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland.
² Swiss School of Public Health, Zürich, Switzerland.
³ University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of International Health, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.
⁵ Epidemiology Research Unit, Institute of Public Health, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
⁶ Department of Health Psychology and Research Methodology, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Košice, Slovakia.
⁷ Department of Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland.
⁸ Institute of Medical Sociology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

PMID: 36467128
PMCID: PMC9716458
DOI: 10.3389/phrs.2022.1605407

Editorial

«I Do Not Have Time»-Is This the End of Peer Review in Public Health Sciences?

Nino Künzli et al. Public Health Rev. 2022.

. 2022 Nov 17:43:1605407.

doi: 10.3389/phrs.2022.1605407. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Nino Künzli^{1

2

3}, Anke Berger^{1

3}, Katarzyna Czabanowska⁴, Raquel Lucas⁵, Andrea Madarasova Geckova⁶, Sarah Mantwill⁷, Olaf von dem Knesebeck⁸

Affiliations

¹ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland.
² Swiss School of Public Health, Zürich, Switzerland.
³ University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of International Health, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.
⁵ Epidemiology Research Unit, Institute of Public Health, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
⁶ Department of Health Psychology and Research Methodology, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Košice, Slovakia.
⁷ Department of Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland.
⁸ Institute of Medical Sociology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

PMID: 36467128
PMCID: PMC9716458
DOI: 10.3389/phrs.2022.1605407

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Keywords: peer review crisis; post-publication peer review; pre-publication peer review; public health science journals; reviewer declines; reviewer incentives.

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The authors are editors of the International Journal of Public Health or Public Health Reviews.

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[1] Else H. How a Torrent of COVID Science Changed Research Publishing in Seven Charts. Nature (2020) 588:553. 10.1038/d41586-020-03564-y - DOI - PubMed

[2] Else H. How a Torrent of COVID Science Changed Research Publishing in Seven Charts. Nature (2020) 588:553. 10.1038/d41586-020-03564-y - DOI - PubMed

[3] Aviv-Reuven S, Rosenfeld A. Publication Patterns’ Changes Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal and Short-Term Scientometric Analysis. Scientometrics (2021) 126:6761. 10.1007/s11192-021-04059-x - DOI - PMC - PubMed

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[5] Squazzoni F, Bravo G, Grimaldo F, García-Costa D, Farjam M, Mehmani B. Only Second-Class Tickets for Women in the COVID-19 Race. A Study on Manuscript Submissions and Reviews in 2329 Elsevier Journals. PLoS ONE (2020) 16(10):e0257919. Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3712813 (16 September 2022). 10.1371/journal.pone.0257919 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[6] Squazzoni F, Bravo G, Grimaldo F, García-Costa D, Farjam M, Mehmani B. Only Second-Class Tickets for Women in the COVID-19 Race. A Study on Manuscript Submissions and Reviews in 2329 Elsevier Journals. PLoS ONE (2020) 16(10):e0257919. Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3712813 (16 September 2022). 10.1371/journal.pone.0257919 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[7] Bauchner H, Fontanarosa PB, Golub AR. Editorial Evaluation and Peer Review during a Pandemic. How Journals Maintain Standards. JAMA (2020) 324(5):453–4. 10.1001/jama.2020.11764 - DOI - PubMed

[8] Bauchner H, Fontanarosa PB, Golub AR. Editorial Evaluation and Peer Review during a Pandemic. How Journals Maintain Standards. JAMA (2020) 324(5):453–4. 10.1001/jama.2020.11764 - DOI - PubMed

[9] Kaltenbrunner W, Pinfield S, Waltman L, Woods HB, Brumberg J. Innovating Peer Review, Reconfiguring Scholarly Communication: An Analytical Overview of Ongoing Peer Review Innovation Activities. SocArXiv (2022). [Internet]Available from: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/8hdxu (16 September 2022)

[10] Kaltenbrunner W, Pinfield S, Waltman L, Woods HB, Brumberg J. Innovating Peer Review, Reconfiguring Scholarly Communication: An Analytical Overview of Ongoing Peer Review Innovation Activities. SocArXiv (2022). [Internet]Available from: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/8hdxu (16 September 2022)

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