
{"id":3630,"date":"2020-09-21T05:38:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T05:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/what-fosters-trust-in-peer-review-perspectives-of-chinese-researchers\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T06:29:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T06:29:44","slug":"what-fosters-trust-in-peer-review-perspectives-of-chinese-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/what-fosters-trust-in-peer-review-perspectives-of-chinese-researchers","title":{"rendered":"What fosters trust in peer review: Perspectives of Chinese researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Trust is the bedrock of peer review. Scholarly progress is sustained largely by an institution relying on professionals and volunteer experts to do their job with integrity. The theme for this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/peerreviewweek.wordpress.com\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">Peer Review Week<\/a>\u2014<i>trust in peer review<\/i>\u2014is timely as well as apt. The scholarly publishing community has been trying multiple approaches to strengthen peer review in the past few years, and the current pandemic has been putting a strain on peer review as never before.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">How much do researchers trust peer review? Which factors influence their trust in peer review? How has their trust in peer review weathered the COVID-19 crisis?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">In the weeks leading to Peer Review Week 2020, we asked these questions to researchers in China\u2014the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-018-00927-4\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">leading research producer<\/a> in the world and <a href=\"https:\/\/bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12879-020-05293-z\/tables\/1\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">one of the countries<\/a> that has produced the most research related to COVID-19. This post summarizes the results of a survey conducted by Editage.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Survey period:<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> August 20 to September 5, 2020<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Total number of respondents:<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> 545<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Main questionnaire components: <\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">One question asking respondents to rate level of agreement with statements on a scale of 1 to 5 [<i>strongly agree, agree, neither agree nor disagree, disagree, strongly disagree<\/i>], one question asking them to rank trust-related factors in the order of importance, and one question about effect of COVID-19 on their trust in peer review<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Survey dissemination channel:<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> WeChat<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Demographic distribution of respondents<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The majority of respondents were male, Ph.D. degree holders, and early-career researchers. Most had published over 5 papers, and the largest proportion belonged to the fields of physical sciences, engineering, and related subject areas.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" class=\"media-element file-default\" style=\"width: 560px; height: 314px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Default Title Text\" src=\"https:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Chart%201_1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" class=\"media-element file-default\" style=\"width: 742px; height: 400px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Default Title Text\" src=\"https:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Chart%202_0.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" class=\"media-element file-default\" style=\"width: 560px; height: 300px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Default Title Text\" src=\"https:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Chart%203_2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" class=\"media-element file-default\" style=\"width: 560px; height: 300px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Default Title Text\" src=\"https:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Chart%204.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" class=\"media-element file-default\" style=\"width: 560px; height: 300px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Default Title Text\" src=\"https:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Chart%205.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Main results<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Around 59% respondents said that they found peer reviewer comments useful, and an overwhelming majority\u201479%\u2014said that they trust the quality of papers that have undergone peer review more than the quality of those that have not.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">(Note: In the figures below, <i>overall agree<\/i> and <i>overall disagree<\/i> refer to the total numbers of respondents who chose <i>strongly agree<\/i>\/<i>agree<\/i> and <i>strongly disagree<\/i>\/<i>disagree<\/i>, respectively.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" class=\"media-element file-default\" style=\"width: 560px; height: 372px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Default Title Text\" src=\"https:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Chart%206.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" class=\"media-element file-default\" style=\"width: 560px; height: 361px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Default Title Text\" src=\"https:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Chart%207.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">A large majority of the respondents agreed that perception of reviewer bias of any type influences how much they trust peer review and that their trust in peer review would improve if global standards for peer review were established.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" class=\"media-element file-default\" style=\"width: 560px; height: 344px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Default Title Text\" src=\"https:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Chart%209.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" class=\"media-element file-default\" style=\"width: 560px; height: 325px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Default Title Text\" src=\"https:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Chart%208.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">We asked participants to rank seven factors based on how important each would be in establishing their trust in a journal\u2019s peer review process. The responses were analyzed by assigning mean ranks to each factor.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">The top three most important factors were whether a journal has good reviewer selection policies, whether its review process is transparent, and whether it seeks and implements author feedback on the review process.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:8px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" class=\"responsive\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%2210714%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Alt%20text%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Title%20Text%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" src=\"https:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Chart%2010_1.png\" style=\"height: 250px; width: 425px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Default Title Text\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Finally, we asked participants how their confidence in peer review was affected by the ongoing COVID-19 situation. The majority\u201460%\u2014said that it had remained the same as before, and 11%, in fact, believed that it had increased.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" class=\"media-element file-default\" style=\"height: 336px; width: 650px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Default Title Text\" src=\"https:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Chart%2011.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background:white\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color:#181818\">Key takeaways<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">1. Value of peer review.<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"> While researchers may be slightly divided about how valuable they find peer review for their own manuscripts, the majority tend to place great importance on peer review in general as a quality-check process in scholarly communication.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">2. Fairness and bias.<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"> Efforts to improve fairness in peer review by minimizing potential reviewer bias are important. This is underscored by the large majority of respondents saying that perceived bias affects their trust in peer review. Previous surveys have <a href=\"https:\/\/senseaboutscience.org\/activities\/peer-review-survey-2009\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">consistently<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/librarianresources.taylorandfrancis.com\/white_paper\/peer-review-a-global-view\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">shown<\/a> that researchers tend to prefer double-blind peer review to other review types. The main reason for this is that the double-blind format is believed to enforce greater objectivity. Approaches to improving reviewer objectivity and accountability are important to establishing trust in peer review, especially among authors from the Global South.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">3. Global peer review standards.<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"> Establishing global standards can improve not only the quality of but the trust in peer review. It is understandable that peer review processes are determined by many journal-specific factors, and, therefore, peer review quality can vary widely across journals. Nevertheless, perhaps it is time to consider applying standards to at least some aspects of peer review, such as reviewer training programs and expected review outputs. Peer review was already <a href=\"https:\/\/campaign.editage.com\/editage-survey-researcher-comments\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">found<\/a> to be among the top three areas of academic publishing that researchers worldwide want changes in, especially with respect to quality and processes. And defining standards may be even more relevant for urgent, high-impact research, such as research on COVID-19.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"background:white\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#181818\">4. Trust in peer review through strengthening of processes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"background:white\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#181818\"> The three top-ranking factors that were found to influence trust in peer review were all related to a journal\u2019s review processes and policies. This indicates that even though global standards for peer review may not yet exist, each journal can still improve researcher trust in peer review by adopting robust and transparent processes and by using author feedback to further strengthen peer review.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">5. COVID-19 and trust.<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"> COVID-19<\/span>\u2013<span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">related pressures may not <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">have <\/span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">extensively damaged trust in peer review among researchers, even though concerns are being voiced about how peer review quality is being maintained and the actual impact of these pressures on peer review is not easy to gauge in the short term.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><strong><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background:white\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color:#181818\"><span style=\"font-weight:normal\">This article is powered by <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/strong><span class=\"MsoHyperlink\" style=\"color:#0563c1\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\"><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background:white\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.researcher.life\/?utm_source=insightsrow&amp;utm_medium=contentmarketing&amp;utm_campaign=covidarticle10_PRW\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">R Concept<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><strong><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background:white\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color:#181818\"><span style=\"font-weight:normal\">, a platform that<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/i><\/strong><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">combines AI-harvested data with human curation to help researchers working on COVID-19\u2013related topics find the literature and insights they are looking for.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">For further insights related to trust in peer review during the pandemic, join us in <span class=\"MsoHyperlink\" style=\"color:#0563c1\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/live-panel-discussion-maintaining-trust-in-peer-review-during-covid-19?refer-type=Webinars\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">a panel discussion<\/a><\/span><\/span> with experts on Sep 21, 2020. This webinar is part of the <span class=\"MsoHyperlink\" style=\"color:#0563c1\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/campaign.editage.com\/cactus\/peer-review-week-2020\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">Peer Review Week 2020 activities<\/a><\/span><\/span> organized by Cactus Communications.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif\">Editorial note:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif\"> <i>This article has been updated since it\u00a0was first published. An error was discovered in the translation of the rating scale used in the survey question asking respondents to rank factors influencing trust in peer review. We have re-analyzed the results for this question, corrected the graph, and modified sections of the post interpreting those results. We apologize for this error<\/i>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trust is the bedrock of peer review. Scholarly progress is sustained largely by an institution relying on professionals and volunteer experts to do their job with integrity. The theme for this year\u2019s Peer Review Week\u2014trust in peer review\u2014is timely as well as apt. 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