by Richard W. Smith | Oct 21, 2009
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....
by Peter Frishauf | Oct 21, 2009
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...
