2010/07/01 by Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Arts and Humanities · Decision Sciences · #Publishing and Scholarly Communication #scientometrics and bibliometrics research
paper · doi:10.1080/02691728.2010.498929
openalex publication_date 2010/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
The nature of authority is shifting in online scholarly communication. This examination of the history and future of peer review argues that effective online communication requires the development of an open, community‐oriented, post‐publication system of peer‐to‐peer review, transforming peer review from a process focused on gatekeeping to one concerned with filtering the wealth of scholarly material made available via the Internet.