Peer review is one of the crucial elements of modern research. This process tries to ensure a high level of quality in published papers as well as the effective distribution of resources such as grant money. Traditionally this task has been assigned to more senior members of the scientific community. However, the rapidly growing number of researchers, in particular, more junior researchers, challenges this system with a large amount of work to review and a very small number of reviewers. Prof. Glenn van de Ven from the Department of Astrophysics is part of a team exploring the possibility of distributing reviewing works back to applicants and enhance this process with machine learning. They show that this distributed peer review system can be a robust and more efficient replacement of the classical peer review system. The paper is published in the high-impact journal "Nature Astronomy".

Links

The Paper in "Nature Astronomy"

The Distributed-Peer-Review Experiment in ESO Messenger

Media coverage at science.orf.at (German)

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Glenn van de Ven

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