Development of a Global Registry for Peer Review in Astronomy
Channel: Center for Open Science
Date: 2023-05-24

Session: Development of a Global Registry for Peer Review in Astronomy

Speaker: Vicente Amado Olivo, Graduate Research Assistant, Michigan State University

Abstract: The telescope facilities that are required to answer questions in modern astrophysics can only be built by large multinational collaborations and are shared with the community. Access to these resources is scarce and the community uses a panel of experts to select proposals that have the highest chance of furthering astrophysics. Expertise is distributed globally across various career stages, but the current methods for identifying reviewers rely solely on the isolated personal networks of a committee. Personal networks lack the breadth of specialization to reliably review the scope of proposals submitted. Therefore, expanding beyond isolated communities will broaden the geographic and demographic representation of reviewers, including individuals from underrepresented countries and early career researchers. Here, I will present the development of a reviewer registry of all active astrophysicists. I will present our research on various author name disambiguation algorithms that we validated in Astrophysics using 20,000 ORCiD identifiers, successfully disambiguating 87.5% of names.