Making peer review evidence-based: It’s time to open the "black box"

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2024

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Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.

“…Though recent developments in scholarly publishing have enabled the partial or even complete decoupling of peer review from this gatekeeping role (sometimes referred to as "journal-independent" or "journal agnostic" peer review; e.g., Eisen et al, 2022;Hamelin et al, 2022;Lumb 2023), social work journals still largely adhere to a traditional model of double-blind, pre-publication peer review (Caputo, 2019). While the published literature is in some ways validated by this model, the underlying processes are largely unstandardized and opaque, and its overall functioning is poorly understood (see Dunleavy, 2022b;Tennant & Ross-Hellauer, 2019). Blatant errors (e.g., misreported or incorrect statistical results; inaccurate or misleading citations), omissions (e.g., selective reporting of results), misrepresentations (inflation or deflation of findings), and even cases of fraud (e.g., fabrication of data, falsification) are inevitably published (see Dunleavy & Lacasse, 2023;Ioannidis, 2005Ioannidis, , 2008Nuijten et al, 2015;Srivastava, 2016, and references therein).…”

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On the Dearth of Retractions in Social Work: A Preliminary Analysis of Ten Leading Journals

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2024

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Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.

“…Peer review remains understudied (Kassirer & Campion, 1994), with a bevy of areas worth pursuing (see generally Ioannidis et al, 2024). Going forward, I hope the field will take much more seriously (1) the need to rigorously investigate the past and current functioning of social work journals and their systems for peer review and (2) the need to develop and test alternative models for peer review, 5 publication practices, 6 and dissemination (see generally Bellantyne, 2022;Dunleavy, 2021aDunleavy, , 2024bEisen et al, 2022;Hamelin et al, 2022;Heeson & Bright, 2020;Priem, 2013;Sever, 2023;Tennant et al, 2017).…”

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The Crises of Peer Review

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2024

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Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.

“…For a novel concept (Verification Reports) which combines aspects of the Registered Report format with the concept of reproducibility and (possibly) replication, see Chambers (2020). Recommendations for strengthening the peer review system in social work are made in Dunleavy (2021Dunleavy ( , 2022a.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For a novel concept (Verification Reports) which combines aspects of the Registered Report format with the concept of reproducibility and (possibly) replication, see Chambers (2020). Recommendations for strengthening the peer review system in social work are made in Dunleavy (2021, 2022a). Grassroots efforts (e.g., Morey et al, 2016) exemplifies how collective action by peer reviewers can support minimum standards for publication and the ideal of open data—while nudging authors and journals to engage with these norms and practices.…”

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Is Social Work Research in Crisis?

Research on Social Work Practice

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Lacasse

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2023

Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.