Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publishing – call for abstracts

Author: Véronique Kiermer, Scientific Director, PLOS

Bring your attention to the Call for Abstracts for the Ninth Peer Review Congress published this week. Details are available in this editorial, co-published by JAMA and the BMJ, and on the Congress website. You can watch the virtual symposium if you want to hear details from the Congress organizers.

Every four years since 1989, the Peer Review Congress has brought together researchers, journal editors and all those involved in the communication and publication of scientific research, in order to shed light on their own processes. The meetings helped stimulate research on peer review and scientific publication, including bias studies, reporting standards, prospective registration and many more topics.

The Ninth Peer Review Congress will be held in September 2022 and the website will open for abstract submissions on December 1, 2021. The the deadline for abstract submission will be January 31, 2022.

The congress was originally anchored in medical journals – the JAMA network, the BMJ and the Meta-Research Innovation Center (METRICS) at Stanford are the organizers and planners – but it now encompasses a wide range of disciplines. The sharing of results and experiments across disciplinary boundaries is particularly important. The audience for this meeting is unique and includes researchers, publishers, funders, information innovators, policy makers, ethicists, journalists and more.

For this upcoming convention, I have the honor to be part of an extraordinary advisory committee that will work with the organizers to shape the conference program. We look forward to receiving summaries and helping to assemble a stimulating program of evidence-based discussions to improve the quality, efficiency and fairness of peer review.