BIO

My name is Abdullah Ismail I'm a freshman at FSU studying finance and political science. I'm from Saudi Arabia where I've lived my entire life, before coming to Tallahassee for school. My goal is to attend law school after I graduate and hopefully practice law as my career. I'm primarily interested in research in the social science field, I believe my skill set is in analysis and humanities rather than in math and STEM fields; Thus I enjoy fields that employ those skills more such as social science.

Investigating Social Workers’ Attitudes and Experiences with Open Peer Review

Abstract

While “Peer Reviewed” articles are viewed as the gold standard in the scholarly community, the peer review process is still imperfect. Inaccuracies have been able to surpass the review process, and bias is known to be a factor in the editorial process. In recent years “open peer review” has been suggested as a combatant to many of these problems. “Open peer review” is an umbrella term for a variety of mechanics that “open up” the peer review process, such as revealing the identities of the editors or revealing their edits. Open peer review is a suggestion we can make to the current peer review system, it however, has not been well tested, especially in the field of social work we’re examining. The purpose of the study is to assess the perceptions and attitudes of scholars in the field to open peer review, as well as assessing deficiencies of the current system of peer review.

Keywords: Peer review, Meta-research, Social work.