Following on from the success of Peer Review Week 2016, a group of organisations is working collaboratively to plan a week of activities and events to strengthen and celebrate peer review for the third year in a row.
The theme of Peer Review Week 2017 is Transparency in Review, a topic that will allow the community to explore a wide range of opportunities and challenges that this presents for peer review. It will run from September 11 – 17, with activities taking place on social media and across the globe.
Planned activities include virtual and in-person events including webinars, videos, interviews and social media activities designed to improve understanding of the principle of peer review and how it is practiced within the scholarly community.
To kick off the week's activities, Peer Review Week organisers will run a panel discussion as a satellite session following the Peer Review Congress (Chicago, September 10-12). The panel will be held at 5:30 p.m. CDT, September 12 directly after the close of the Congress, and will consist of a moderator and four panelists representing researchers, publishers, funders, peer review innovators and science commentators. Panelists will be asked to respond to a wide range of questions both gathered in advance of the event and from the audience. The discussion is expected to last 90 minutes, and will lay the groundwork for the rest of Peer Review Week.
A list of other Peer Review Week events and activities, as well as a range of resources and information are available on the website www.peerreviewweek.org which will be updated over the coming months. Throughout the week many organisations will join in the celebrations with additional activities.
Promote Peer Review Week and join the conversation on social media by using the Twitter hashtags
#PeerRevWk17 and #TransparencyinReview.
The idea for the first Peer Review Week, held in 2015, grew out of informal conversations between ORCID, ScienceOpen, Sense About Science, and Wiley, the organisations that planned and launched the initiative in 2015.
In 2017, 29 organisations are participating in the Peer Review Week organising committee. Coordinating efforts enables wide and powerful sharing of the message that quality peer review, whatever shape or form it might take, is critical to scholarly communications.
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