I am interested in analyzing some features of editor and reviewer comments during the peer review process. There doesn't appear to be an option to limit search results to articles that include reviewer reports in Scopus/Google Scholar/Web of Science, or even PLoS ONE. Does anybody know a workaround that doesn't involve web scraping?
(I know some journals like BMC publish reviewer reports as a standard practice, but I would like to search multiple journals that offer, but do not require, open peer review.)
Thanks!
Nature will publish peer review reports as a trial
Nature is following seven other Nature Research journals. They are Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Immunology, Nature Microbiology, and Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. And in taking this step, they are joining the pioneering efforts of The EMBO Journal and BMC journals — and, more recently, Nature Communications, which has been publishing reviewer reports since 2016.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00309-9
Thank you! It also turns out that Publons lets you filter for articles with published pre- and/or postpublication peer review reports, although their other search functions are more basic than the big databases: https://publons.com/publon/?prepub_reviews=1&order_by=date
See my reply to https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_there_any_source_where_I_can_read_peer-reviews for an example (Proceedings of the Royal Society A). More journals of the Royal Society may have open reviews - I did not check.
I think all EGU journals, such as Biogeosciences, allow you to download reviewer comments and responses, but I am not aware of any way that automatizes your search.
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