PLoS Open Peer Review Corpus

Section for Logic & Cognitive Science, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science

Generated by Ksawery Jasieński under supervision of Marcin Miłkowski (2022)

Public Library of Science (PLoS) journals are committed to open peer review idea, but these are voluntary. They are not available for download in a single package, but they are contained in their huge data dump.

The data set contains all available peer reviews as of 16 June 2022 (138 papers with reviews). In addition, the corpus contains metadata about particular reviews, author responses, decision letters and paper metadata in the JSON format. The JSON schema files are available in the schema subdirectory in files with self-explanatory names.

The original files were not enriched with any linguistic annotation or converted to any format (these are predominantly PDF, TXT, and DOCX files, as uploaded through the MDPI editorial system by reviewers).

Additionally, we are making the filter code available, in the review_crawler directory. For PLoS reviews, plos_crawler.py should be used (more notes in the subdirectory).

The files are being made available under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).