Neuroscience
Omni Brain links to a new feature at Nature: a 3 month trial period of "open" peer review. For those who opt to submit their papers under this track,
But you, too, can participate in Nature's peer review debate.
P.P.S. - Another Neurocritical opinion on the topic:
Anonymous Peer Review Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
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- Anonymous Peer Review Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry
The Neurocritic has been feeling reproved this past week, so it's time to post an oldie but goodie about the arbitrary nature of peer review, published in Brain (full-text available free). Might as well take up gambling. Rothwell PM, Martyn CN. Reproducibility...
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The other day on Twitter I saw Rolf Zwaan tweeting about Collabra's policy of rewarding reviewers with credit that can be traded in for credit for organisational article processing fees (APC) budgets, into Collabra's fee waiver account, or for...
Neuroscience
Peer Review Trial and Debate at Nature
Omni Brain links to a new feature at Nature: a 3 month trial period of "open" peer review. For those who opt to submit their papers under this track,
authors can choose to have their submissions posted on a preprint server for open comments, in parallel with the conventional peer review process. Anyone in the field may then post comments, provided they are prepared to identify themselves. Once the usual confidential peer review process is complete, the public 'open peer review' process will be closed. Nature will report on the results after the trial period is over.In other words, The Neurocritic must be identified by name to post open comments on the web, but may maintain anonymity if the editors send me a manuscript for review. In addition, the trial
will continue in parallel with Nature's usual procedures, and does not affect the likelihood of eventual publication of the submitted work.So what do the editors and authors do with the open peer review comments??
But you, too, can participate in Nature's peer review debate.
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UPDATE: well, they did allow this post to get in (perhaps to demonstrate the benefits of the current peer review system):
I am the biggest name in the world in electromagnetic theory. All my attempts to publish on electromagnetic theory have for thirty years been rejected worldwide by the system of peer review.
My comments are at
http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/66.htm
and
http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/67.htm
Ivor Catt
P.P.S. - Another Neurocritical opinion on the topic:
Anonymous Peer Review Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
- Elsewhere
For when you've had enough of journal articles: There are some astoundingly vivid descriptions of panic (p.90) and self-harming (p.145) in Sarah Walter's latest best-selling novel The Night Watch (published by Virago Press), set in London during...
- The Pre-registration Challenge
Open Science Framework - There have been no registrations. A number of scientists have been vocal proponents of study pre-registration, in which detailed methodological and statistical plans for an experiment are registered in advance of data collection....
- The Voodoo Of Peer Review
Are blogs good or bad for the enterprise of scientific peer review? At present, the system relies on anonymous referees to provide "unbiased" opinions of a paper's (or grant's) merits. For today, the discussion will focus on peer review of papers...
- Anonymous Peer Review Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry
The Neurocritic has been feeling reproved this past week, so it's time to post an oldie but goodie about the arbitrary nature of peer review, published in Brain (full-text available free). Might as well take up gambling. Rothwell PM, Martyn CN. Reproducibility...
- Peer Review: Solemn Duty Or Merely Extra Work?
The other day on Twitter I saw Rolf Zwaan tweeting about Collabra's policy of rewarding reviewers with credit that can be traded in for credit for organisational article processing fees (APC) budgets, into Collabra's fee waiver account, or for...