abstract:Open peer review describes a scholarly/scientific literature concept and process, central to which is the various transparency and disclosure of the identities of those reviewing scientific publications. The concept thus represents a departure from, and an alternative to, the incumbent anonymous peer review process, in which non-disclosure of these identities toward the public – and toward the authors of the work under review – is default practice.
The idea is that the open source model — distributeddevelopment, a transparent development process, and peerreviewofcode — is betterthan the proprietary development model.