Trends in Open Peer Review: Research by Information Scientists
Peiling Wang, Professor, University of Tennessee-Knoxville & Dietmar Wolfram, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee In a recent open-access (OA) peer-reviewed article1, we report on the rapid growth of open peer review (OPR) journals from 38 in 2001 to 617 in 2019 with a significant increase since 2017 (the dataset2 is available at Zenodo). One of the…