[RQC-interest] Review Quality Collector (RQC) status update July 2014

["Lutz Prechelt" <prechelt@inf.fu-berlin.de>]

In the last update you read that I was slightly too late
to get into the consortium for a EU project call that
fit well with RQCs goals. I wanted to look for other
funding opportunities next.

The second stream of activity was getting acquainted with
people from Elsevier starting a related initiative.

Well, the search for alternative funding sources has not
come up with much, so I was starting to be less optimistic
about finding funding for the RQC project myself.

The meeting with the Elsevier people, however, was positive:

In 2012, Elsevier ran a contest, the Peer Review Challenge [1]
to collect ideas for improving the peer review system.
The first-ranked entry [2] was Simon Gosling's "Reviewer 
Badges and Rewards scheme" [3] which proposes to 
publicly recognize reviewers for the quantity of their reviewing.

To implement this idea, Elsevier has recently started a 
"Reviewer Recognition Program" (RRP).
We have now agreed that I will work with them to help extend
the RRP to also pick up quality evaluation ideas from RQC.

Elsevier is initially implementing the RRP in a pilot form with
only a few journals and intends to then roll it out more broadly:
first across the Elsevier universe and then across the whole publishing
industry (as a free service).

I will keep you posted.

[1] http://www.peerreviewfuture.com/?page_id=14
[2] http://www.elsevier.com/connect/winners-announced-for-peer-review-challenge
[3] http://www.elsevierblogs.com/yourpeerreviewfuture/?page_id=242

  Lutz Prechelt

Prof. Dr. Lutz Prechelt; prechelt@inf.fu-berlin.de
Institut f. Informatik; Freie Universitaet Berlin
Takustr. 9, R.014; 14195 Berlin; Germany
+49 30 838 75115; http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/w/SE/