Crowdsourced Review Probably Can’t Replace the Journals

Reviewers have day jobs and other things they are doing as well. Review fatigue is becoming more real as more papers get constantly submitted at a higher ratio than new reviewers enter.

However society might wish to make scientific progress efficient, the truth about complex systems is that trying to simplify them doesn’t guarantee that they become more effective; it risks making them less effective. They function best when they are robust, throwing off a vast array of insights whose value may be realised over time. That means the

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