Should you sign your reviews?

When: 16 May 2022, 15:00-16:00 CET

Registration: https://forms.office.com/r/jsKzJczXfe

Link to the session will be sent to all registered participants.

Peer review is one method of quality control in scientific publishing. A topic of discussion in the open science community is open peer review, where the peer review reports are shared alongside the published article. As a reviewer, you often have the possibility of signing your review, to disclose your identity to the authors. In this meeting, together with Daniel Lakens, we will share experiences with signed vs anonymous reviews, discuss positive and negative consequences of signing reviews, with the goal to allow researchers to make an informed discussion about whether or not, or when and when not, to sign open peer reviews.

About Daniel Lakens

Daniel Lakens is an experimental psychologist working at the Human-Technology Interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology. In addition to his empirical work in cognitive and social psychology, he works actively on improving research methods and statistical inferences, and has published on the importance of replication research, sequential analyses and equivalence testing, and frequentist statistics. He was involved in establishing dedicated grants for replication studies by the Dutch science funder NWO, and with Brian Nosek co-edited a special issue with the first Registered Reports in psychology in 2014. His lab is funded until 2022 by a VIDI grant on a project that aims to improve the reliability and efficiency of psychological science. He teaches about better research practices on Coursera, and received the Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science in 2017 for his course ‘Improving Your Statistical Inferences’ in which more than 50.000 learners have enrolled.