Open and transparent: the review process of the Semantic Web journal

TitleOpen and transparent: the review process of the Semantic Web journal
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsJanowicz, K, Hitzler, P
JournalLearned Publishing
Volume25
Issue1
Pagination48-55
Abstract

While open access is established in the world of academic publishing, open reviews are rare. The Semantic Web journal goes further than just open review by implementing an open and transparent review process in which reviews are publicly available, the assigned editors and reviewers are known by name, and are published together with accepted manuscripts. In this article we introduce the steps to realize such a process from the conceptual design, over the implementation, a overview of the results so far, and up to lessons learned.