[GOAL] Open peer review at MDPI

[John Dove]

Martyn, 
    Excellent message.  
    You make MDPI’s policies really clear.  And I’m glad you give both authors and reviewers opt-outs.   I can think of many examples where open peer review would shut down good peer review. And your process protects against those cases where open=biased while allowing it in cases where open is meaningfully informative.  

-john

> On Oct 16, 2018, at 12:31 AM, Martyn Rittman <rittman at mdpi.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> An announcement from MDPI about expanding our open review option to all 
> journals (https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1405):
> 
> It is now a little over four years since MDPI first started to offer 
> open peer review. Given the popularity of this feature in the 14 
> journals operating it until now, we have decided to extend options for 
> open reports and open identities to all MDPI journals. This means that 
> authors have the option for the review reports and author responses to 
> be published alongside their article, and reviewers have the option to 
> add their name to the published review report.
> 
> A blog post with some data and background can be found at at 
> http://blog.mdpi.com/2018/10/12/opening-up-peer-review/.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Martyn
> 
> -- 
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