The Research‑on‑Research Association (RORATION) and Taylor & Francis have announced the launch of the Journal of Research on Research (J·ROR), an open‑access, community‑owned journal dedicated to examining how research is funded, organized, conducted, communicated, and evaluated. The journal aims to consolidate the research‑on‑research community and support evidence‑informed improvements to research systems and practices.
J·ROR will serve a dual role as both a publisher and an active participant in research on research. Taylor & Francis will contribute by sharing data on publishing processes across its portfolio. The editorial team plans to conduct in‑journal experiments on peer review, editorial workflows, and other publishing practices, generating evidence to inform both J·ROR’s operations and broader scholarly communication standards.
In its inaugural editorial, the editors emphasized that a field committed to producing robust evidence for improving research practices must also apply those insights to its own operations. They noted that J·ROR will integrate emerging findings into editorial practices as they become available.
The journal’s peer review system is designed to function as a dialogue among authors, editors, and reviewers, offering formative feedback before publication. J·ROR will adopt a transparent peer review model, publishing review reports alongside articles and allowing reviewers to sign their reports. From launch, J·ROR will collaborate with the publish‑review‑curate platform MetaROR to consider works reviewed through its system.
J·ROR seeks to provide a central venue for research that identifies as “research on research,” embracing diverse approaches to understanding how research is practiced, evaluated, and governed. The editors explained that the journal was motivated by a desire to serve a scattered multidisciplinary field, which risks generating its own research waste if not consolidated.
Although published by Taylor & Francis, J·ROR is owned by the research‑on‑research community through RORATION, an independent scholarly society overseeing its development. This structure ensures that the journal’s evolution reflects the values of the community it serves.
J·ROR is now open for submissions across all areas of research on research, with particular interest in contributions that cross disciplinary boundaries and advance understanding of how research systems function and can be improved.
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