Improving publication quality and the importance of Post Publication Peer Review: The illustrating example of X chromosome analysis and calculation of forensic parameters

Abstract

[eng] Promotion of scientific publications’ quality is a shared responsibility of Authors, Editors, Peers and Publishers [1]. Peer Review system, which has been understood as a major quality control instrument of scientific publications, has been under severe criticism for at least one decade [e.g. 2–12], in part due to an alarming (and growing) rate of corrections and retractions [e.g. 5–8]. Open evaluations have been proposed as an alternative [9] while other supplementary systems have been used in the last years such as Post Publications Peer Review (PPPR) [10,11] and many initiatives (e.g. F1000,ResearchGate, PubPeer, Publons and PubMed Commons [10,12]) have been taken aiming to improve the peer reviewing quality and to make errors visible and, ultimately, corrected.