Innovating peer review, reconfiguring scholarly communication

The post summarises the findings of two recently completed studies by a group of scholars collaborating in the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) .
One is a review of existing review articles of peer review innovations which identifies three high-level categories: approaches to peer review, reviewer focussed initiatives and technology to support peer review.
The other is an empirical paper analyzing the results of a survey about ongoing innovation projects among publishers, academic journal editors, and other organizations in the scholarly communication ecosystem which resulted in a dataset of 95 self-defined innovations.