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Peer Review of Datasets: When, Why, and How

Authors :
Roland Leigh
Steven Worley
Jonathan Tedds
Sarah Callaghan
Matthew S. Mayernik
Source :
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 96:191-201
Publication Year :
2015
Publisher :
American Meteorological Society, 2015.

Abstract

Peer review holds a central place within the scientific communication system. Traditionally, research quality has been assessed by peer review of journal articles, conference proceedings, and books. There is strong support for the peer review process within the academic community, with scholars contributing peer reviews with little formal reward. Reviewing is seen as a contribution to the community as well as an opportunity to polish and refine understanding of the cutting edge of research. This paper discusses the applicability of the peer review process for assessing and ensuring the quality of datasets. Establishing the quality of datasets is a multifaceted task that encompasses many automated and manual processes. Adding research data into the publication and peer review queues will increase the stress on the scientific publishing system, but if done with forethought will also increase the trustworthiness and value of individual datasets, strengthen the findings based on cited datasets, and increase the transparency and traceability of data and publications. This paper discusses issues related to data peer review—in particular, the peer review processes, needs, and challenges related to the following scenarios: 1) data analyzed in traditional scientific articles, 2) data articles published in traditional scientific journals, 3) data submitted to open access data repositories, and 4) datasets published via articles in data journals.

Details

ISSN :
15200477 and 00030007
Volume :
96
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Accession number :
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