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The Rise and Fall of Peer Review
- There seems to be an open debate on whether the current system of peer-review actually weeds out papers correctly. This experiment re-submitted 12 already approved papers and 89% of the peer reviewers said the paper shouldn’t be published. More recently hundreds of sham papers managed to get through the process as scammers posed as guest editors.
from Decentralizing Journals and Peer Review DAOs: the evolution of legitimacy in scientific publishing by Nikhil Krishnan
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- 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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Real peer review has never been tried - Works in Progress
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