Nicholas, David and Herman, Eti and Rodriguez-Bravo, Blanca and Watkinson, Anthony and Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Cherifa and Swigon, Marzena and Abrizah, Abdullah and Sims, David and Xu, Jie and Clark, David and Serbina, Galina and Jamali, Hamid R. and Tenopir, Carol and Allard, Suzie (2023) Peer review: the attitudes and behaviours of Covid-19 pandemic-era early career researchers. Profesional de la Informacion, 32 (3). ISSN 1386-6710, DOI https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2023.may.06.
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Explores science and social science early career researchers' (ECRs) perceptions and experiences of peer review, seeking also to identify their views of any pandemic-associated changes that have taken place. Data are drawn from the Harbingers-2 project, which investigated the impact of the pandemic on scholarly communications. Peer review, one of the activities covered, is singled out as it proved to be the activity of greatest concern to ECRs. Findings are obtained from interviews, which covered around 167 ECRs from China, France, Malaysia, Poland, Russia, Spain, UK and US, supplemented by an international survey that took the data out to a bigger and wider audience for confirmation and generalisation. Results obtained are enhanced by comparisons with pre-pandemic evidence yielded by Harbingers-1, the forerunner of the present study, and anchored in an extensive review of the literature. Main findings are: 1) most ECRs were experienced in peer review, both as reviewers and authors, but few had formal training; 2) half the ECRs had a lot or some reservations as to whether peer review vouches for the trustworthiness of research; 3) inadequate reviewers and slow processes were the main peer review associated problems; 4) there was a strong feeling that some kind of compensation, whether monetary or reputational, could help in dealing with these problems; 5) the pandemic impacted most on the speed of processing, with the majority of ECRs saying it had slowed the process; 6) nearly everyone thought that any pandemic-induced impacts would be temporary.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Research; Scholarly communication; Scientific communication; Young researchers; ECRs; Peer review; Reliability in peer review; Pandemics; Covid-19; Harbingers Project; Impacts; Consequences of the pandemic; interviews; Peer review trustworthiness; Surveys; Resilience; Differences between countries; China; France; Malaysia; Poland; Russia; Spain; United Kingdom; USA |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Libraries > Library science. Information science |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Department of Library and Information Sience |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2025 03:30 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Sep 2025 03:30 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/50495 |
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