Changing a little the topic, I have a question about the statement of Edwin. He wrote: "If the statistics are grossly inappropriate (for example running an ANOVA with 12 treatments, but only 1 or two replicates per treatment), adequate peer review was clearly not in place." Well, I published a paper in which I used 2 way ANOVA with a total of 18 groups and 2 replicates per groups. It was peer reviewed, and one of the reviewers complained about my statistics, asking for measurements of power, perhaps with the expectation that that particular test would have no enough power to draw any conclusions. I used a software to measure the power of the test (G*power 3), and found that power was the maximum possible (1.00) for the effects due to factors 1 and 2, and 0.99 for the interaction effect.Was my test flawed? It was peer reviewed! Best,
Matheus C. Carvalho Postdoctoral Fellow Research Center for Environmental Changes Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan --- Em qui, 9/7/09, Edwin Cruz-Rivera <[email protected]> escreveu: De: Edwin Cruz-Rivera <[email protected]> Assunto: Re: [ECOLOG-L] "real" versus "fake" peer-reviewed journals Para: [email protected] Data: Quinta-feira, 9 de Julho de 2009, 10:37 I believe one of the original questions was how to discern reputable journals from those that publish dubious or biased results...or do not accomplish proper peer review. I can point to a couple of red flags that can be noticed without too much effort and I have observed: 1) If the articles in the journal come mostly from the same institution in which the editor in chief is located, chances are the buddy system has overwhelmed objectivity...especially if the editor is a co-author in most. 2) If orthographic and syntax errors are widespread, probably the review process was not thorough. 3) If the statistics are grossly inappropriate (for example running an ANOVA with 12 treatments, but only 1 or two replicates per treatment), adequate peer review was clearly not in place. Now these may look like extreme cases, but I have seen too many examples similar to the above to wonder how widespread these cases are. I have even received requests to review papers for certain journals in which I have been asked to be more lenient than if I was reviewing for a major journal. This poses a particular dilemma: Is all science not supposed to be measured by the same standards of quality control regardless of whether the journal is institutional, regional, national or international? I would like to think it should be... Edwin ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Edwin Cruz-Rivera Assist. Prof./Director, Marine Sciences Program Department of Biology Jackson State University JSU Box18540 Jackson, MS 39217 Tel: (601) 979-3461 Fax: (601) 979-5853 Email: [email protected] "It is not the same to hear the devil as it is to see him coming your way" (Puerto Rican proverb) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Veja quais são os assuntos do momento no Yahoo! +Buscados http://br.maisbuscados.yahoo.com
