01985nas a2200349   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260001200043653000900055653001100064653001600075653002600091653001600117653003500133653001500168653002800183653002800211653002600239653001300265100002100278700001900299700001700318700001400335700001700349700001900366700001600385245007700401300001000478490000800488520112500496022001401621       2023                            d  c2023-0910abias10aHumans10apeer review10aPeer Review, Research10apeer review10aPeer review training resources10aPublishing10ascholarly communication10ascholarly communication10aScientific publishing10aTraining1 aJessie V. Willis1 aKelly D. Cobey1 aJanina Ramos1 aRyan Chow1 aJeremy Y. Ng1 aMohsen Alayche1 aDavid Moher00aLimited online training opportunities exist for scholarly peer reviewers  a65-730 v1613 aOBJECTIVES: To create a comprehensive list of all openly available online trainings in scholarly peer review and to analyze their characteristics.
STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: A systematic review of online training material in scholarly peer review openly accessible between 2012 and 2022. Training characteristics were presented in evidence tables and summarized narratively. A risk of bias tool was purpose-built for this study to evaluate the included training material as evidence-based.
RESULTS: Fourty-two training opportunities in manuscript peer review were identified, of which only twenty were openly accessible. Most were online modules (n = 12, 60%) with an estimated completion time of less than 1 hour (n = 13, 65%). Using our ad hoc risk of bias tool, four sources (20%) met our criteria of evidence-based.
CONCLUSION: Our comprehensive search of the literature identified 20 openly accessible online training materials in manuscript peer review. For such a crucial step in the dissemination of literature, a lack of training could potentially explain disparities in the quality of scholarly publishing.  a1878-5921