Re: [FRIAM] Homeostasis by Peer Review

2009-01-31 Thread Robert Holmes
Or become editor of a journal and then publish all your own stuff there. Just like the editor of *Chaos, Solitons and Fractals* (Elsevier) did. Story at: http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081126/full/456432a.html or more accessibly in blogs at http://scienceblogs.com/pontiff/2008/12/nature_on_el_nas

Re: [FRIAM] Homeostasis by Peer Review

2009-01-30 Thread Roger Critchlow
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:40 PM, John Kennison wrote: > > > Maybe in the near future, researchers will publish papers on their web sites > and journals would consist of stars (and maybe other symbols) and links. > In a sense that's what already happens, e

Re: [FRIAM] Homeostasis by Peer Review

2009-01-29 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu) > [Original Message] > From: glen e. p. ropella > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Date: 1/29/2009 2:12:46 PM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Homeostasis

Re: [FRIAM] Homeostasis by Peer Review

2009-01-29 Thread John Kennison
...@earthlink.net] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:20 PM To: russ.abb...@gmail.com Cc: friam Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Homeostasis by Peer Review Russ, What you propose here is actually more elaborate and interesting than what I had in mind. It's what I proposed PLUS behavioral and brain sci

Re: [FRIAM] Homeostasis by Peer Review

2009-01-29 Thread Nicholas Thompson
son Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu) > [Original Message] > From: glen e. p. ropella > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Date: 1/29/2009 12:44:00 PM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Homeostasis by Peer Review > > Thu

Re: [FRIAM] Homeostasis by Peer Review

2009-01-29 Thread Russ Abbott
e. p. ropella > > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > > Date: 1/29/2009 12:44:00 PM > > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Homeostasis by Peer Review > > > > Thus spake Nicholas Thompson circa 28/01/09 07:34 PM: > > > [.

Re: [FRIAM] Homeostasis by Peer Review

2009-01-29 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Thus spake Nicholas Thompson circa 29/01/09 12:37 PM: > [...] it all > boils down to a one-bit decision: either you are going to read the sucker > or you arent. Not that I'm argumentative or anything; but it's not just binary. I have at least 3 modes of reading: 1) read and integrate, 2) sloppy r

Re: [FRIAM] Homeostasis by Peer Review

2009-01-29 Thread Nicholas Thompson
plexity Coffee Group > Date: 1/29/2009 12:44:00 PM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Homeostasis by Peer Review > > Thus spake Nicholas Thompson circa 28/01/09 07:34 PM: > > [...] why not > > have every article published and every article rated by a number of stars, > > and t

Re: [FRIAM] Homeostasis by Peer Review

2009-01-29 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Thus spake Nicholas Thompson circa 28/01/09 07:34 PM: > [...] why not > have every article published and every article rated by a number of stars, > and then everybody could set their browser to the minimum number of stars > we are willing to tolerate. Those of us who don't want to be subject to >

Re: [FRIAM] Homeostasis by Peer Review

2009-01-28 Thread Nicholas Thompson
e weird stupid stuff that goes nowhere. We readers are really the problem. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu) > [Original Message] > From: Peter Lissaman > To: > Date: 1/27/2009 1:14:26 PM > Sub

Re: [FRIAM] Homeostasis by Peer Review

2009-01-27 Thread Russell Gonnering
Peter-This is an interesting proposal.  Having served on the editorial board of a number of medical publications, I agree that the peer review process tends to preserve the status quo.  The standard for an established author from a "reputable institution" may be, at least unconsciously, different f

Re: [FRIAM] Homeostasis by Peer Review

2009-01-27 Thread Marko A. Rodriguez
Hi, Or you could separate the review process from the publication process. E.g. pre-print repositories could provide peer-review services. If a journal wants a paper it can search for "highly regarded" articles in pre-print repositories and request from authors for the copyright permissions to pub

[FRIAM] Homeostasis by Peer Review

2009-01-27 Thread Peter Lissaman
Peer Review is indeed an excellent preserver of status quo. For the AIAA (the main aerospace institution) the standard procedure is that the signed draft paper is submitted by editors to reviewers, who then send anonymous comments to the author. Twenty years ago, as a Fellow of said august Instit