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Finding the right words to evaluate research: An empirical appraisal of eLife’s assessment vocabularyuse asterix (*) to get italics
Tom E. Hardwicke, Sarah Schiavone, Beth Clarke, Simine VazirePlease use the format "First name initials family name" as in "Marie S. Curie, Niels H. D. Bohr, Albert Einstein, John R. R. Tolkien, Donna T. Strickland"
2023
<p>The journal eLife recently announced that it would abandon binary ‘accept/reject’ decisions and instead focus on sharing both peer review reports and short “eLife assessments” representing the consensus opinions of editors and peer reviewers. For consistency, eLife assessments will use phrases drawn from a common vocabulary to convey a study’s “significance” and “strength of support”. In our view, the chosen vocabulary, and their intended ordering, are counterintuitive, which may undermine communication with readers. In this study, we intend to empirically evaluate the psychometric properties of the eLife vocabulary and assess whether an alternative vocabulary has more desirable properties. Our goal is to make a constructive contribution towards a more transparent and informative peer review process at eLife and other journals.</p>
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2023-06-16 12:11:14
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