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Abundance Obsoletes Peer Review, so Drop It - http://bit.ly/awhPab academics can stop paying this tax on their time #peerreview #abundance
- Arjen Lentz repeated this.
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@glynmoody ??? review before publish or review after publish, but peer review all the same?
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@glynmoody misunderstanding perhaps? can't drop peer review if you want. can drop review before publish if you like.
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@zotz I'm talking about the formal "peer review" process, not "peer review" in general...
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@glynmoody got that, but something may need to replace it other than a free for all otherwise everyone will pay with their own time.
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@zotz I've tried to clarify this in the text: any better?
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@zotz sure; but I think that would evolve naturally - scientists would create what they need, not what they are told to use
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@glynmoody Doesn't peer review pre-publication affect the quality - and perception - of the journals that employ it, though?
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@dwd depends what you're trying to do: to get knowledge out, they're not; to get tenure, they are - but that's part of the problem
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@glynmoody They're a fairly (not completely) reliable method for filtering papers, too. A reputation broker, if you will.
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@dwd yes, but an expensive one, and not necessarily the only one as other social nws indicate...
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@glynmoody I'm also a bit sceptical of how much self-publicity is required for a scientific "digg".
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@glynmoody Also, peer review is used for open standards, too.
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@glynmoody sorry, can't say. only read the dent before. commented below the text though.
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@dwd yes, that's a problem - but also human nature
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@dwd I think there's a difference between the formal "peer review" of journals, and people looking at technical specs
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@glynmoody Gosh, I do hope not.
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@glynmoody I hope any of my proposals get serious scrutiny from my peers, at least.
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@dwd I do hope so.
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@kev Well, put it this way, I'd rather my stupid ideas got shot down before publication. :-)
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@dwd And the good ones?
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@kev That's the point, my (few) good ideas tend to survive the ravages of peer review, and usually end up better because of it.
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@dwd Open review like this doesn't necessarily present the same experience as closed academic review.
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@kev This I'll readily grant, indeed.
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i'm skeptical, but i like the balls on that post
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