[Eril-l] NISO Announces Publication of the Peer Review Terminology Standard

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*Baltimore, MD - July 5, 2023* -  The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) is pleased to announce the publication of the Peer
Review Terminology Standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.106-2023)
<https://www.niso.org/publications/z39106-2023-prt>, which will support
open research by simplifying the communication of peer review roles and
practices and fostering greater transparency in the peer review process.

Peer review is universally acknowledged as critical to the research
process, ensuring the quality and validity of scholarly research. With the
move toward open research and the emergence of new peer review models,
concerns around fairness in the peer review process have given rise to
demands for greater transparency. Unfortunately, assessing peer review
processes has been made difficult by the use of different nomenclature
across publications. Recognizing the need for a solution, the International
Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) formed a
working group on peer review terminology in 2019. After outlining an
initial set of definitions and best practices, STM looked to NISO to build
on these efforts and develop a formal industry standard.

ANSI/NISO Z39.106-2023, Peer Review Terminology, offers a simplified
terminology that will make the peer review process more transparent to
authors, reviewers, and readers across the journals that adopt it. A shared
set of definitions will also enable the community to compare peer review
processes across publications more easily. The new standard was developed
for articles and journal publications, and a NISO Standing Committee may
address books and other peer-reviewed research content in future.

Joris van Rossum, Director, Research Integrity, STM, who chaired the
effort, remarked, “We are delighted that the Peer Review Terminology work
is now an ANSI/NISO standard and are looking forward to this
standardization enabling easy adoption and promulgation. Many
pre-publication trials at publishers provided practical information to this
output, and we are so appreciative of the valuable input of members of both
the STM and later NISO working groups.”

Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive Director, added, “Strengthening overall
trust in scholarly communication—in this case, the peer review
process—through cooperation and open dialogue is exactly the role of NISO
standards, and we are pleased to have been able to play a part in bringing
the Peer Review Terminology to a wider community. Many thanks to Joris and
the Working Group members for their energy and input. We look forward to
continuing to support implementations of this new standard.”

The Peer Review Terminology Standard is freely available at
https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/peer-review-terminology.

*About NISO*

NISO, based in Baltimore, Maryland, fosters the development and maintenance
of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and
effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in
research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
communities of interest and across the entire life cycle of information
standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO
website (https://niso.org).


NISO

3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302

Baltimore, MD 21211

Phone: 301.654.2512 E-mail: nisohq at niso.org
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