http://yann.lecun.com/ex/pamphlets/publishing-models.html proposes a new model for publication in computer science.
-- rec -- On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]>wrote: > 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* > > ============================================================ > 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 >
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