Kazuhiro Hayashi (2021). How Could COVID-19 Change Scholarly Communication to a New Normal in the Open Science Paradigm? Patterns 2(1), 100191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100191
Since the emergence of the world wide web, scholarly journals have been transformed practically into “online journals” and have developed many useful functions such as online submission, search, and connecting to various items beyond just citation linking for better scholarly communication. It has been a while since online journals became inevitable among the researchers of various fields. Still, the framework of journal publishing itself, especially the scheme of peer review, has not been changed for many years, although it has been improved partially or additionally by the use of online reviewing systems. Some radical challenges such as open peer review have been tried by publishers and others, but these attempts have failed or only succeeded in a small range so far. The current framework of journal publishing and peer review is very robust, and it looks like it’s too established to change drastically. […]