- For professors, publishing in elite journals is an unavoidable part of university life. The grueling process of subjecting work to the up-or-down judgment of credentialed scholarly peers has been a cornerstone of academic culture since at least the mid-20th century
...they advocate using the Internet to expose scholarly thinking to the swift collective judgment of a much broader interested audience.
...scientists and economists ... have created online repositories for unpublished working papers, like http://www.repec.org
...mathematicians used blogs and wikis to evaluate a supposed mathematical proof in the space of a week — the scholarly equivalent of warp speed
Peer Review Alternatives?
Peer Review Alternatives?
August 24, 2010: In an article in the NY Times Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review they include:
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Thanks to Doug Milliken for forwarding the following article:
Sept 9, 2010: Peer review highly sensitive to poor refereeing, claim researchers
Sept 9, 2010: Peer review highly sensitive to poor refereeing, claim researchers
- Just a small number of bad referees can significantly undermine the ability of the peer-review system to select the best scientific papers. That is according to a pair of complex systems researchers in Austria who have modelled an academic publishing system and showed that human foibles can have a dramatic effect on the quality of published science.
The research shows that article quality can drop if referees do not behave 'correctly.' At high levels of self-serving or random behavior, 'the peer-review system will not perform much better than by accepting papers by throwing (an unbiased) coin.' The model also includes calculations for 'friendship networks' (nepotism) between authors and reviewers.
- See the full article
- The paper by Stefan Thurner and Rudolf Hane is
- For our own issues with peer review see Peer Review Process Gone Wild:
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Jan 16, 2012: NY Times: Cracking Open the Scientific Process
which begins:
which begins:
- "The New England Journal of Medicine marks its 200th anniversary this year with a timeline celebrating the scientific advances first described in its pages: the stethoscope (1816), the use of ether for anesthesia (1846), and disinfecting hands and instruments before surgery (1867), among others."
- See the full article in the NY Times: Cracking Open the Scientific Process
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