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Real peer review has never been tried - Works in Progress
- The system of peer-review and publishing has worked for a long time when we were actually dependent on them for things like physical distribution of magazines, manuscripts, etc. Today, journals use the industry's reliance on peer-reviewed publications as a proxy for quality in order to coordinate a lot of unpaid labor. Authors are somewhat dependen... See more
from Decentralizing Journals and Peer Review DAOs: the evolution of legitimacy in scientific publishing by Nikhil Krishnan
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It didn’t. In all sorts of different fields, research productivity has been flat or declining for decades, and peer review doesn’t seem to have changed that trend. New ideas are failing to displace older ones. Many peer-reviewed findings don’t replicate, and most of them may be straight-up false. When you ask scientists to rate
... See morefrom The Rise and Fall of Peer Review by Adam Mastroianni
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