2026 Peer Review Report Challenges Crisis Narrative, Calls for Evidence-Based Assessment
By
Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
Crackles when you bite it. Shows the baker did the work.
Summary
The 2026 Future of Peer Review Report challenges the prevailing narrative that peer review is in crisis. Based on eight years of ScholarOne Manuscripts data, literature reviews, expert interviews, and survey responses, the report finds a more nuanced reality: peer review is under real pressure but not in a simple state of crisis. The report argues that the crisis narrative benefits publishers, vendors, and funders in different ways, and calls for evidence-based assessment rather than alarmist framing.
Key quotes
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Before accepting a crisis narrative that benefits publishers, vendors, and funders in different and often contradictory ways, the report asks for evidence.
What the report finds is more complicated, and (hopefully) more useful, than a simple alarm.
A system under real pressure
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