OrthopaediaPeer Review Workflow

Maintaining quality the wiki way

Peer review

• Helps to ensure quality, credibility, accuracy, clinical value of content

• Establishes a reliable body of research and knowledge, sets standards for a discipline

• Gives authors the opportunity to correct weaknesses identified by peer reviewers

• Prevents dissemination of unsubstantiated claims, faulty interpretations, irrelevant findings, personal biases

Content development and quality

• Editorial Boards from subspeciality associations oversee the content development and maintenance of quality using the Orthopaedia Peer Review Workflow Engine

Case example: AOFAS & Foot and Ankle Section

Labels used for tracking, activation of peer review workflow

• “aofas” label – article is part of the AOFAS content partnership collection

• “aofas_review” – article added to the AOFAS Peer Review Workflow

• “aofas_dev” – article under development by AOFAS member

aofas_review label can only be removed by an Orthopaedia Administratoraofas_review label can only be removed by an Orthopaedia Administrator

User groups created for “editors”and “reviewers”

AOFAS peer review workflow

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aofas-editors

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Peer review workflow engine

• Workflow can be customized and configured to meet specific needs of subspecialty society

Draft

• A newly contributed article is labeled as a “Draft,” triggering peer review

Under review

• An article that moves to “Under Review” is “locked” – it can only be edited by the AOFAS Reviewers

Reviewed

• An article that has been reviewed goes back to the author for revisions recommended by the reviewers or is submitted to Editor-in-Chief

Published

• Once the Editor-in-Chief is satisfied, the article is published

Peer review workflow

Workflow process shows states of peer review process and dates. All edits and versions are tracked as an activity log.

Workflow report

Workflow reports track the states of articles.

Workflow emails

Notifications

By clicking on “Watch Page Family,” the AOFAS Editorial Board is notified of any changes made to the articles.

Call for articles

• Articles written according to a template to ensure uniformity

• Potential authors asked to contact Editor-in-Chief• Allows control over how articles are developed

Article under development

• Once an author has been approved to write on a topic, the page is reserved for that author and the article is labeled “Under Development”

Disclaimer

• Disclaimer for the section clearly indicates that changes are subject to modification or deletion

Disclaimer

• Disclaimer appears on articles developed under content partnership