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Peer Review and Reputation Systems: A Discussion

Can we trust traditional peer review? If it’s broken, how might we fix it? These questions are put to a panel of experts in this Journal of Participatory Medicine podcast. The spirited discussion accompanies 2 articles on the subject in JPM’s inaugural issue: ...

In Search Of an Optimal Peer Review System

Abstract Summary: After 30 years of practicing peer review and 15 years of studying it experimentally, I’m unconvinced of its value. Its downside is much more obvious to me than its upside, and the evidence we have on peer review tends to support that jaundiced view....

Reputation Systems: A New Vision for Publishing and Peer Review


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Abstract Summary: Peer review as we know it today is broken. A better way may be to create an online reputation system to rate the quality of an author, editor, or reviewer’s online contributions on the Internet, and apply such a system to pre- and open...

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