On “A Multi-disciplinary Perspective on Emergent and Future Innovations in Peer Review,” by Jonathan P. Tennant et al.
In “A Multi-disciplinary Perspective on Emergent and Future Innovations in Peer Review,” Jonathan P. Tennant and a large group of co-authors consider the past, present, and future of peer review in scholarly communication. They suggest that although academic publishing is largely done online, peer review methods broadly have yet to catch up to the possibilities that our networked world hold. Tennant et al. argue that resistance to reforming peer review for the modern age is “largely a hangover from the…