title: Errors in science: the role of reviewers.
abstract: Reviewers play a key role in science, although studies suggest the current peer-reviewing system has faults. We propose to introduce a quality control system to evaluate each journal's review process, and produce a Review Quality Index. We propose four schemes that have the potential to reduce errors in a key step in scientific decision making: the reviewing process.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, UK; Department of Animal Behaviour, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany. Electronic address: T.Szekely@bath.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Tamás
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Székely
authors.affiliation: Department of Animal Behaviour, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
authors.forename: Oliver
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Krüger
authors.affiliation: Department of Animal Behaviour, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany; Behavioural Ecology Group, Department of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: E Tobias
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Krause
mesh_terms: D010380:Peer Review / Q000592:standards; D011786:Quality Control; D012586:Science / Q000592:standards*
keywords: fairness; peer reviewing; review quality; reviewers