Martyn,
Excellent message.
You make MDPI’s policies really clear. And I’m glad you give both authors
and reviewers opt-outs. I can think of many examples where open peer review
would shut down good peer review. And your process protects against those cases
where open=biased while allowing it in cases where open is meaningfully
informative.
-john
> On Oct 16, 2018, at 12:31 AM, Martyn Rittman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> An announcement from MDPI about expanding our open review option to all
> journals (https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1405):
>
> It is now a little over four years since MDPI first started to offer
> open peer review. Given the popularity of this feature in the 14
> journals operating it until now, we have decided to extend options for
> open reports and open identities to all MDPI journals. This means that
> authors have the option for the review reports and author responses to
> be published alongside their article, and reviewers have the option to
> add their name to the published review report.
>
> A blog post with some data and background can be found at at
> http://blog.mdpi.com/2018/10/12/opening-up-peer-review/.
>
> Kind regards,
> Martyn
>
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