In case you missed this news---- https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nature-shift-signals-new-era-peer-review-transparency
Interesting that authors get to choose whether or not to make the review reports public—this suggests that what will probably become transparent are the positive reports, while the negative ones will remain hidden from readers.
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…which leads to the question of whether the “omitted” reviewers still stand behind the reviewed paper. COPE looked at this case a few years ago and came up with a disclaimer solution--- https://publicationethics.org/case/reviewer-concerns-about-transparency-peer-review-process.
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