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Mar 29
4 min

Double-Blind Peer Review: Pros, cons and everything in-between

What does it mean? Double-blind peer review is a process used by scholarly journals where the reviewer’s identity is hidden from the...

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It’s in our DNA – The Beginning and End of an Era

Lizi Dawes

Mar 8
5 min

It’s in our DNA – The Beginning and End of an Era

Once upon a time One day, in 1983, Pat Anderson gave birth to a chubby bundle of joy. Years later, and after a whirlwind of numerous...

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2021 – A New Year: Hope and Developments

Anita Judd & Lizi Dawes

Jan 21
4 min

2021 – A New Year: Hope and Developments

Vaccines and variants The last quarter of 2020 brought positive news of COVID-19 vaccines.[1] It also brought the new variant,...

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Plan S 2021: Shock or radical solution for scientific publishing?

Anita Judd

Dec 1, 2020
4 min

Plan S 2021: Shock or radical solution for scientific publishing?

** UPDATED 11.12.2020 ** Plan S 2021: A shock or a radical solution for scientific publishing? What is Plan S? ‘S’ for Shock In September...

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COVID’s impact on peer reviews: working together

Anita Judd, Lynsey Harrison, Lizi Dawes

Oct 12, 2020
4 min

COVID’s impact on peer reviews: working together

What happens when a pandemic, like COVID-19, arrives and disrupts the entire world?

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Eat three cucumbers a day to lose weight: The Importance of Trust

Lizi Dawes

Sep 11, 2020
2 min

Eat three cucumbers a day to lose weight: The Importance of Trust

Trust is an obvious ingredient in peer review, isn’t it? We might think this is a rhetorical question, but often, it’s not. Working in...

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