The present and future of peer review: Ideas, interventions, and evidence
What is wrong with the peer review system? Is peer review sustainable? Useful? What other models exist? These are central yet contentious questions in today's academic discourse. This perspective critically discusses alternative models and revisions to the peer review system. The authors highlight possible changes to the peer review system, with the goal of fostering further dialog among the main stakeholders, including producers and consumers of scientific research. Neither our list of identified issues with the peer review system nor our discussed resolutions are complete. A point of agreement is that fair assessment and efficient change would require more comprehensive and rigorous data on the various aspects of the peer review system.
Authors
- Nazbanou Nozari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2215-8533)
- Stephan Lewandowsky (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1655-2013)
- Odd Erik Gundersen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9754-5941)
- Amanda B. Diekman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6286-3974)
- Ann‐Sophie Barwich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0123-9366)
- Robert L. Goldstone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8357-8358)
- Alex O. Holcombe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2869-0085)
- Balázs Aczél (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9364-4988)
- Pablo Gómez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4180-1560)
- Paul T. von Hippel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4498-4374)
- Ayelet Fishbach (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7923-4237)
- Franco Pestilli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2469-0494)
- John P. A. Ioannidis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3118-6859)
Institutions
- Eötvös Loránd University (HU)
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- University of Potsdam (DE)
- IDEO (United States) (US)
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
- Skidmore College (US)
- University of Bristol (GB)
- University of Chicago (US)
- Indiana University Bloomington (US)
- Trøndelags Europakontor (NO)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology (CZ)
- Innovative Research (United States) (US)
- Indiana University (US)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2025-01-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401232121
- Citations
- 58
- Primary Topic
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 81.11