Types of peer review and what the evidence says about bias
Single blind, double blind, triple blind, and open review: how each type of peer review works and what controlled experiments show about bias in evaluation.
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Articles, tutorials, and news about scientific events, peer review, proceedings publishing, and association management.
Your journal has thousands of DOIs. Where do you start?
Audit your journal's Crossref metadata free: a Health Score and the DOIs prioritized by citation impact. Born at the Crossref Metadata Sprint.
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Types of scientific events: conference, congress, symposium
Conference, congress, symposium, workshop, colloquium, seminar: how these scientific event labels differ in English, and where usage genuinely varies.
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What are preprints and how do they work
What a preprint is, why researchers post one, how repositories like arXiv and bioRxiv work, and what you give up by posting before peer review.
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What are conference proceedings? A guide for organizers
Conference proceedings are the official record of the work presented at a scientific event. What they are, what goes in them, and why to publish online.
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