Tag: peer review

Reimagining trust in academia through networked transparency

Apr 4, 2025

in Open access, Publication, Research, Scholarship, Technology

academic journals, journals, peer review, publishing, trust, trust mechanisms, trustworthy, version control

Academia should move from outsourced trust via publishers to networked transparency. While traditional publishing established mechanisms like persistent identification and peer review, today’s technology enables these functions to operate openly. Version control systems document the evolution of knowledge creation, open platforms invite diverse feedback, and scholarly control of these mechanisms creates more responsive, values-aligned academic…
An open, collaborative, and version-controlled academic writing workflow

Apr 2, 2025

in Scholarship

academic publishing, academic writing, co-authorship, collaboration, DOI, github, journal, journal article, markdown, Netlify, obsidian, Pandoc, peer review, publication, research, version control, Vitepress, writing workflow

My academic writing now happens in public—from drafting in Markdown to version control on GitHub and automated website deployment. This open source-inspired workflow isn’t just technical; it challenges traditional publishing power structures while enabling transparent collaboration, continuous improvement, and multiple distribution formats. By controlling our means of knowledge creation, production, and distribution, we shift the…
Claude, help me to write

Nov 18, 2023

in AI, Writing

academic writing, argument, blogging, critical feedback, critical friend, feedback, large language model, LLM, peer review, premises, process, prompt, prompt design, review, writing, writing coach, writing process

Yesterday I published a post describing my concerns with how universities are responding to the new paradigm of expertise-on-demand that’s facilitated by generative AI. At the end of that post I noted that I wrote it collaboratively with Claude, and this post describes what that process (kind-of) looked like. I also want to be clear…
A trilogy of posts on using AI for academic articles

Nov 8, 2023

in AI, Publication, Research, Writing

academic journals, academic writing, editorial workflow, journals, peer review, publication, research, workflow

Earlier today I published a short series of posts on some ideas I had for using language models (e.g. ChatGPT and Claude) to help support academic writing. I didn’t plan to write a series of posts. I initially had the idea to test Claude’s capability as a peer reviewer, and as I was finishing up…
Journals should be experimenting with LLMs in their editorial workflow

Nov 8, 2023

in AI, Publication, Research, Writing

editor, editorial process, editorial workflow, journal, language model, LLM, peer review, publication

I recently wrote a post about using Claude to peer review an academic paper, and the decent job it did. Based on that experience, I started thinking about the probable impact on journal editorial workflows, a significant part of which is the peer review process. If I was still on an editorial board of a…
‘Academic writing’ includes more than we think

Jul 11, 2023

in Writing

academia, academic writing, application, blogging, cv, email, essay, grant application, interview, magazines, peer review, podcasts, proposal, social media, writing

https://patthomson.net/2023/07/10/academic-writing-its-a-lot/ When we talk about academic writing, as usually refer to papers, books, chapters and dissertations. However, there’s a lot more to academic writing than just these four.
Article: Which are the tools available for scholars?

Dec 4, 2019

in Publication, Research, Scholarship

academic writing, open access, openphysio, peer review, publication, research, scholarship, writing

In this study, we explored the availability and characteristics of the assisting tools for the peer-reviewing process. The aim was to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the tools available at this time, and to hint at new trends for further developments…. Considering these categories and their defining traits, a curated list of 220 software…
What does scholarship sound like?

Apr 2, 2019

in Research

academia, article, audio, peer review, podcast, publication

in this post I’ve tried to describe why podcasts are potentially a useful format for creating and sharing the production of new knowledge, presented a framework for determining if a podcast could be considered to be scholarly, and described the workflow and some practical implications of an accreditation process using a traditional journal.
OpenPhysio | A new physiotherapy education journal

Jul 4, 2017

in Research, Scholarship

academic publishing, journal, open access, openphysio, peer review, physiopedia, publication

I’m really excited to announce a new project that I’ve been working on together with the folks at Physiopedia. Today we’re launching an open access, peer reviewed journal with a focus on physiotherapy education, with a few features that we think are pretty innovative in the academic publishing space. The journal is called OpenPhysio and represents…
Peer review of teaching

Mar 2, 2012

in Assessment, Curriculum, Research, Teaching

assessment, evaluation, peer review, peer review of teaching practice

Introduction Peer review is a form of evaluation designed to provide feedback to teachers about their professional practice. The standard method of evaluating teaching is to ask students at the end of a module or course, for their feedback on the lecturers performance. While student feedback does have value, it also has limitations. For example,…
Peer review of teaching activities

Jul 13, 2011

in Curriculum, Education, Teaching

learning, peer review, teaching, teaching activities, teaching portfolio

Last year at our planning meeting we decided to integrate peer review of teaching activities during 2011 as part of our departmental plan to engage with a scholarship of teaching and learning. A few of us developed a peer review form based on a few examples we found online and then submitted the form to…
Sharing my article for open peer review

Jun 14, 2010

in Open access, Research

academic writing, author, collaborative learning, Google, open, peer review, physiotherapy, research, south africa, south african society of physiotherapy, wikis, yeats

I’m interested in how changes in the internet are forcing changes onto institutions that haven’t traditionally responded well to change. One group that’s finding the transition especially hard are the publishers, especially the academic publishers. A little while ago I wrote an open letter to the South African Society of Physiotherapy, asking them to move…
An open letter to the SASP: Opening up access to the journal

Nov 16, 2009

in Education, Physiotherapy, Research

author, british medical journal, copyright law, creative commons, free services, higher education, internet connection, Michael Rowe, open access, open archives initiative, open repositories, peer review, PLoS Medicine, publication, relatively inexperienced author, research, researcher and author, sajp, sasp, similar services, south africa, south african journal of physiotherapy, south african society of physiotherapy, the South African Journal, university of the western cape, Western Cape

Dear SASP I’m a young(-ish) and relatively inexperienced author who lately has had a few concerns about the direction of the South African Journal of Physiotherapy (SAJP). I’m proud of the high quality research that is being conducted in the field of rehabilitation and health sciences in South Africa, and like every other academic, researcher…
Open research

Mar 27, 2009

in Open access, Research, Technology

blogs, collaboration, Google, Google Docs, internet connection, Jean-Claude Bradley, jon udell, methodology, open notebook science, open research, open science, peer review, publication, researcher, secrecy, social networks, social tools, wikis

I’ve been thinking about the concept of open research since listening to Jon Udell’s interview with Jean-Claude Bradley on his open notebook science project. The idea is similar to the open approach to writing software in that the process is transparent and open to scrutiny by anyone. This could have important implications for the soundness…
SAAHE conference 2009

Mar 19, 2009

in Conference, Physiotherapy

blogs, cape town, education, Google Docs, journal, peer review, physiotherapy, saahe, search engines, social media, South African Association of Health Educationalists in Cape Town, students, twitter, undergraduate research groups, wikis

I’ve noticed that I’m getting a few hits from search engines with people searching for “SAAHE”, so I can only assume that with the conference coming up in a few months time, interest is on the rise. The SAAHE conference is an annual meeting of the South African Association of Health Educationalists in Cape Town…
Google Docs for collaborative writing

Mar 13, 2009

in Research, Social media

buzzword, cloud computing, collaboration, copyright, desktop work processor, Firefox, Google, Google Docs, google gears, greasemonkey, journal, microsoft, microsoft office live, missouri, online version, online word processing environments, peer review, physiotherapy, publication, research, thinkfree, twitter, undergraduate, word processing, zoho

We’ve recently started using Google Docs for collaborative work in the physiotherapy department and it’s been great so far. There are other online word processing environments with different feature sets (Zoho, Thinkfree, Microsoft Office Live, Buzzword), but after playing around with all of them, I found that Docs offered the best mix of features, usability…
Blogging as a reflective tool

Dec 11, 2008

in Social media

blog, clinical placement, confidence, knowledge, language, peer review, reflection, reflective tool

As part of their clinical placements (short term working placements in either hospitals or health clinics), the students in our department must write reflective pieces on their time at the placement where they look at things like their strengths, weaknesses, learning opportunities and clinical situations that raised issues for them. This reflection is usually a…
Writing for publication workshop

Dec 1, 2008

in Research

peer review, physiotherapy, publication, research, workshop, writing

A few weeks ago my department began a “Writing for publication” workshop, in which each participant would both write and review an article for publication. In theory, this has two distinct advantages: 1) Everyone gets to submit a peer-reviewed article at the end of the workshop, and 2) Everyone gets to experience the process of…