Post-publication peer review: another sort of quality control of the scientific record in biomedicine

Traditional peer review is undergoing increasing questioning, given the increase in scientific fraud detected and the replication crisis biomedical research is currently going through. Researchers, academic institutions, and research funding agencies actively promote scientific record analysis, and multiple tools have been developed to achieve this. Different biomedical journals were founded with post-publication peer review as a feature, and there are several digital platforms that make this process possible. In addition, an increasing number biomedical journals allow commenting on articles published on their websites, which is also possible in preprint repositories. Moreover, publishing houses and researchers are largely using social networks for the dissemination and discussion of articles, which sometimes culminates in refutations and retractions. La revision por pares tradicional atraviesa por crecientes cuestionamientos, dado el aumento en el fraude cientifico detectado y la crisis de replicacion que recientemente se ha presentado en la investigacion biomedica. Investigadores, instituciones academicas y agencias de financiamiento activamente promueven el analisis del registro cientifico y se han desarrollado multiples herramientas para lograrlo. Diferentes revistas biomedicas se fundaron con la revision por pares pospublicacion como caracteristica; existen varias plataformas digitales que hacen posible este proceso. Asimismo, cada vez hay mas revistas biomedicas que permiten comentar articulos publicados en sus sitios web, lo cual tambien es posible en repositorios de preimpresiones. Sumado a esto, las casas editoriales y los investigadores estan usando ampliamente las redes sociales para la difusion y discusion de articulos, lo cual a veces culmina en refutaciones y retracciones.