The peer review process itself is flawed. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420798/
>From the article: "Slow and expensive" "Inconsistent" "Bias" "Abuse of peer review" --Doug On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Marcus G. Daniels <[email protected]>wrote: > On 1/19/13 10:24 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > >> Not to fan any flames, but I am curious about the stereotypes we all >> carry... "Academic" being the current one at issue... >> > Peer review is the mechanism for determining quality work in academia. > Researchers that can get their work past peer review get jobs, and others > do not. A common way for junior people to get work through peer review is > to have senior researcher (typically their mentor and boss) guide the > process. The senior researchers do this for their own benefit, becoming > senior authors on the papers, and in this way they accumulate an impressive > publication record and prominence and for a good bang for the buck. At the > end of the day, in certain academic cliques, one will find that peer review > means that a few powerful people see that it is in their interest to get > papers published. This is not to say that the papers are wrong, or > haven't been reviewed, but they may not be particularly innovative. It's an > economics based on reputation and professional networking amongst the > Players, and it depends on having a pipeline of junior people of various > investment to do the work. > > The idea of taking mailing list discussions and converting it into a > publication has a similar smell. > Instead of having students do the work, there's the brainstorming, > analysis, argumentation of the community as an energy source. It just > needs to be refined.. where the `refinement' is presented as the crucial > contribution of the grown-ups. I could go on, but it gets more cynical > from here on out.. > > Marcus > > > > ==============================**============================== > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/**listinfo/friam_redfish.com<http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> > -- *Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected]* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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