Hello all WikiJournal participants,
There's been an interesting conversation in the editorial board of
WikiJournal of Science of a case where an article had previously been
submitted to another journal, received peer reviews, gotten declined, and
now submitted to WikiJournal. Points raised include that the reputability
of that other journal can be taken into account in accepting their peer
reviews, and it seems unethical to omit important comments previously
raised. Yet, we cannot ignore our peer reviewer criteria
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Peer_reviewers>. It
seems we need to know the identity of the peer reviewers in order to make
this judgement. I think this is further necessitated by the fact that we
may want to complement the peer review, and we'd risk asking the same
reviewer a second time if we don't know the identity of the reviewer.
I've made a section at Editorial_guidelines#Importing_reviews
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Editorial_guidelines…>
(template
currently adapted for WikiJournal of Medicine but which should be up for
the other journals as well in a near future) with the text:
"In case a work has already undergone a peer review by another journal or
reviewing service, that peer review can be accepted by WikiJournal of
Medicine if the peer reviewer criteria
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Peer_reviewers#Crit…>
are
met. This requires that the editorial board gets to know the identity of
the peer reviewer, and that the reviewer agrees to have it published under
creative commons license (CC BY-SA
<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>). External peer reviews
that do not fulfill these criteria should still be uploaded if possible,
but do not count to the minimum of 2 independent peer reviews for each
article."
Feel free to suggest further edits to this.
I suggest we continue discussions in wiki:
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group#Importing_peer_…
Best regards,
Mikael