ISPOR Editors Discuss Challenges in HEOR Publishing

April 23, 2021

Value in Health editors-in-Chief Zeba Khan and Laura Pizzi discuss the challenges associated with publishing HEOR research and the day-to-day scramble to keep up with communications from many platforms and sources. The also discuss the downsides of the peer review process.

“In this issue, we feature the frontiers of the rapidly evolving HEOR publishing landscape: (1) the movement towards open access scientific publication, which directly impacts Value in Health and other high-impact journals in our space; (2) preprint portals that serve as rapid but potentially controversial mechanisms for publishing our work that typically occurs without peer review; and (3) use of metatools that generate “evidence on the evidence” by culling through established portals such as PubMed and clinicaltrials.gov and creating automated summaries of existing publications.” Read more here.