Table 4. Technology to support peer review.
| 1. Current uses | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Author | Examples / Description from paper |
| Platforms/Servers/OA journals | Barroga (2020) | BMJ Open, Sage Open, PLOS ONE. |
| PR services | Barroga (2020) | Peerage of Science |
| Applications and Tools |
Barroga (2020) and
Burley (2017) |
CrossCheck
Publons |
| AI-assisted peer review | Barroga (2020) | ‘Used for recognizing images, recommending content, detecting fraud,
evaluating teaching and assessment, or detecting plagiarism; requires human final judgement’ |
| 2. Potential models | ||
| Model | Author | Examples / description from paper |
| Reddit model |
Barroga (2020);
Tennant et al. (2017) |
‘Platform for comments and original or linked content’ |
| Stack exchange model | ibid | ‘Network of websites of question and answer sites’ |
| Amazon model | ibid | ‘Model for posting reviews of published materials’ |
| GitHub model | ibid | ‘Open-source distributed version control system with features transferable to
peer-review system’ |
| Hypothesis model | ibid | ‘Web annotation tool for interactive education and collection of peer
perspectives’ |
| Wikipedia model | ibid | ‘Collaborative authoring and review system’ |
| Blockchain model | ibid | ‘Technology for possibly creating tokenized peer review system’ |
| Hybrid peer review platform | ibid | ‘Consists of harmonization, certification, and incentivization’ |