This presentation was given by Anna Jester of eJournalPress during the SSP 44th Annual Meeting. The session was held in June of 2022 in Chicago, Illinois.

1. Peer Review
Terminology
Anna Jester
0000-0002-8543-0311
June 2022

2. What is the Peer Review
Terminology?
An ANSI/NISO standard which will
support the industry in ensuring
greater transparency and
openness in peer review.
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3. Drivers
• Innovative review models, including those
called open, have evolved
• Definitions for each term relating to peer
review are unclear
• Transparency is crucial in science
• Use makes peer review more transparent
and allow researches to compare the
processes in use across journals
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4. Timeline
STM Association founds
Working Group
Early 2020
Draft provided for public
input
July 2020
Adapted based on comments
Sep 2020
•Journal and Article level Pilot
January 2021
NISO Working Group
announced to formalize as
ANSI/NISO standard
July 2021
Piloting the terminology with
150 journals through
September
Now
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5. Working Group Members
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Steve Pinchotti. Altum, Inc.
Lois Jones. American Psychological Association (APA)
Caroline Webber. Aries Systems Corporation
Nick Taylor. ATYPON
Naseem Naqvi. British Blockchain Association
Alison Paskins. Cambridge University Press
Trevor Lane. Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
Anna Jester. eJournalPress
Andy Collings. eLife
Oliver Rickard. HighWire Press
Alison Larkin. IEEE
Kim Eggleton. IOP Publishing
Michael Willis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Nettie Lagace. NISO
Nick Lindsay. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Gabe Stein. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Dr. Michelle Urberg. Music Library Association
Jill Reilly. National Agricultural Library
Dr. Bahar Mehmani. Elsevier
Katrina Pickersgill. SAGE Publishing
Jon Speilburg. SPIE
Virginia Mercer. Springer Nature
Tim Shipley. Springer Nature
Sabina Alam. Taylor & Francis Group
Tony Alves. HighWire Press
Lisa Hinchliffe. University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign
Joris van Rossum. STM (Chair) (rossum@stm-assoc.org)

6. Mapped Elements of the Peer
Review Process
• IDENTITY TRANSPARENCY
• REVIEWER INTERACTS WITH
• REVIEW INFORMATION PUBLISHED
• WHETHER POST-PUBLICATION COMMENTING TAKES PLACE
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7. Identity
Transparency
• Single Anonymized
• Double Anonymized
• Triple Anonymized (Editors making
decision also don’t know who the
reviewers are)
• Visible (everyone knows who everyone
is during peer review)

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• Editor
• Editor and other
Reviewer(s)
• Author and Editor
• Editor, other
Reviewer(s) and
Author
Reviewer Interacts With

9. Review information Published
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• None
• Review summaries
• Review reports
• Review reports, author opt in
• Review reports, reviewer opt in
• Submitted manuscript
• Submitted manuscript, author opts in
• Author/editor communication
• Reviewer Identities
• Reviewer Identities, reviewer opt in
• Editor identities
Each Not
Mutually
Exclusive!

10. Whether Post-publication Commenting
Takes Place
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• Registered commentors
• Unregistered commentors
• Editor-selected commentors

11. Use of Terminology
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12. Use of Terminology
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13. Example Journal A
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14. Example Journal B
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15. Questions?
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16. Thank You
Anna Jester
ajester@ejpress.com
@anna_jester
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