Brownbag: The future of peer review

Time: February 25, 11 am
Place: Room 228 of Publicum

Welcome to a new brownbag session of the Open Science Community of Turku, a

Peer review is intended to safeguard scientific integrity, correct errors, and ensure fair decision-making in publication. Yet, critical voices have raised concerns about scientific errors, unreliability, lack of transparency, and bias in peer review process. Despite these challenges, many scientists still see the utility in reviewing for various reasons—such as keeping up with their field, influencing the field’s direction, and (for junior scientists) learning how to evaluate research.

In this brownbag session, we will identify problems and strengths in the present peer review system, and we will – from an Open Science perspective – reflect on how the future of peer review should look like. Should we keep the system as it is, or are there options for improvement?

The following recent paper of will be presented and discussed:
Aczel, B., Barwich, A. S., Diekman, A. B., Fishbach, A., Goldstone, R. L., Gomez, P., … & Ioannidis, J. P. (2025). The present and future of peer review: Ideas, interventions, and evidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(5), e2401232121.