Revised White House peer review guidelines draw generally favorable response

Science and regulation. A White House mandate for more peer review.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 301 5 SEPTEMBER 2003 1307 C RE D IT :B IL L BO W M A N /U N IV ER SI TY O F C O LO RA D O A team of researchers has discovered a winter wonderland under the snow, populated by huge numbers and new kinds of microscopic fungi. These organisms are powerful, underappreciated drivers of tundra ecosystems, says Steven Schmidt, a microbiologist at the University of Color...

Is peer review still the content industry's upper house?

Key points • Although ‘peer review’ has quasi-sacred status, times are changing, and peer review is not necessarily a single and uniformly reliable gold standard. • For publishers, peer review is a process not an outcome. • Academics understand peer review, but are often ignorant about the quality checking mechanisms within wider publishing. • Self-publishing has led to the much wider availabil...

What Constitutes Peer Review of Data: A survey of published peer review guidelines

Since a number of journals specifically focus on the review and publication of data sets, reviewing their policies seems an appropriate place to start in assessing what existing practice looks like in the 'real world' of reviewing and publishing data. This article outlines a study of the publicly available peer review policies of 39 scientific publications that publish data papers to discern wh...

Revised guidelines on

The House-Tree-Person and the Draw-A-Person

This study explores how children’s drawings, as rated on the Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale (FEATS), are related to their emotional and behavioral health. Participating students (ages 8-16, N=53), attending a therapeutic day school for students with emotional and behavioral disorders, drew a picture of a person picking an apple from a tree (PPAT). A discriminant function analysis indicated t...