International Journal of Quantum Foundations (ISSN 2375-4729) has started a new type of open peer review for some received manuscripts. We hope this will help improve the peer review process of this journal. Here are two examples #1 and #2. Thanks to the authors and the reviewers for their support for this new system. Although most papers are still reviewed in the standard way, there will be more open peer review papers in the future. If you have any suggestions and advice, please let us know.
Benefits of our new open peer review
Benefits for authors and readers
- Reduces bias among reviewers
- More constructive reviews
- Reviewer’s comments provide useful information for readers
- Published reports can serve as peer review examples for young researchers
Benefits for reviewers
- Do not necessarily reveal their names
- Shows the reviewer’s informed opinion of the work
- Demonstrates experience as a reviewer
- Can take credit for the work involved in conducting the review (if they would like to reveal their names)