preSCORE, an organization formed to assist members of the scholarly publishing community who are committed to preserving an ethical, rigorous peer review process, was unveiled at the 2013 Fall Highwire meeting.

1. preSCORE
peer review evaluation SCORE –
A new set of metrics for today’s
information ecosystem

2. Traditional peer review seems to be
under constant criticism

3. Cases of faulty research being
published seem to support the critics

4. The recent Bohannon “sting”
highlights the problem

5. But this problem isn’t new & isn’t just
an OA problem
It’s about Peer Review.

6. What is preSCORE?
These are extreme examples which make news,
however surveys indicate that most researchers value
peer review.
 Different approaches are not easy to identify.
 preSCORE is a new tool that generates a metric
indicating the level of peer review conducted.
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Both article and journal level metrics are included in preSCORE.

7. Creating a Different Metric
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Calculated metric includes other “best practices”
Not a lagging indicator, a leading indicator
Newer initiatives such as altmetrics offer more immediate,
useful info, but this is also post-publication. We focus on prepublication peer-review, which sets it apart from other metrics
Supports filtering and differentiation, both critical to readers and
researchers

8. Who Benefits?
 Readers
 Authors
 Publishers/Journals
 Librarians

9. How Does It Work?
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Export tagged metadata from peer review
system
Pull reviewer h-index from Thomson-Reuters
Metadata and h-index analyzed by preSCORE,
and the score is calculated
preSCORE passed as needed via API and
made available on journal page displays, within
article metrics, and so on

10. preSCORE and preVAL
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preSCORE is the “heart” of the system
Not focused on good/bad numbers
preVAL answers the first, most basic
question…“Was this peer reviewed?”
This allows users to drill in for more details if
they want
Allows journals to share additional info

11. Examples

12. Drill Down for Details

13. Project Status
 Currently
completing development with
ScholarOne and Aries
 Beta testing underway
 Expect to launch in 2014
 Anyone who would like more info OR
publishers/journals who wish to participate in
beta testing, please contact me directly

14. Thank You!
Adam Etkin
preSCORE Founder
aetkin@prescore.org