Category Archives: peer review
network selection vs. peer review
The online open science ecosystem may yet provide a superior method to peer review for judging article credibility. “The time is long overdue for scientists and experts in all academic fields to no longer turn their backs on the network laws that have made peer review obsolete.” Judy Breck
scholarly communications must be scalable
“Any learned communication that is not made to scale will shrink in its audiences and relevance, whereas scholarship that embraces scalability will be far more dynamic, flexible, and responsive—a manifestly superior mode of knowledge.” Gideon Burton
fast-food scholarship
“Too many academics—veterans and neophytes alike—are producing scholarship that appears to have traded careful, methodical, fully developed intellectual work for quick and dirty publication.” Lynn Worsham
reviewing peer review
JISC’s executive secretary, Malcolm Read, comments on the recent UK report into peer review and the role of data in evaluating research quality.
the price of information
Academics are starting to boycott a big publisher of journals. More than 2,700 researchers from around the world have so far signed an online pledge, promising not to submit their work to Elsevier’s journals, or to referee or edit papers appearing in them.
stop deifying peer review
“Peer review is not something that one can just ask for and “poof” it happens. Peer review of articles (or any other type of peer review for that matter) frequently does not work as sold—work that is poor can get published and work that is sound can get rejected.” Jonathan Eisen
open source ed
Why aren’t we more vigorously developing cooperative learning environments to help replace the existing paradigm? Top down models are obsolete, just as crowdsourcing settles in as a viable alternative to manage big data.
open academia
What does open peer review mean for the advancement of learning itself and for the politics of academia? (video)
