Dimensions of trust in scholarly communication: Problematizing peer review in the aftermath of John Bohannon's Sting in science

摘要: This study investigates online material published in reaction to a Science Magazine report showing the absence of peer-review and editorial processes set fee-charging open access journals biology. Quantitative qualitative textual analyses are combined map conceptual relations these reactions, explore how understandings scholarly communication publishing relate specific conceptualizations science hedging scientific knowledge. A discussion connection trust knowledge role peer review for establishing communicating this provides theoretical topical framing. Special attention is paid pervasiveness digital technologies formal processes. Three dimensions traced analyzed: through personal experience informal knowledge, b organized, internal control, c form. The article concludes by discussing certain conditions challenged perceptions possibilities deceit environments.