Some subscribers to TIPS and AERA_TEP_SIG128-FORUM might be interested in a recent post "Re: Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review" [Hake (2010)].
The abstract reads: ***************************************************** ABSTRACT: Some subscribers might be interested in Patricia Cohen's (2010) NYT report "Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review." Cohen wrote: "Clubby exclusiveness, sloppy editing and fraud have all marred peer review on occasion. Anonymity can help prevent personal bias, but it can also make reviewers less accountable; exclusiveness can help ensure quality control but can also narrow the range of feedback and participants." I give several examples of sloppy editing by "The American Journal of Physics." ***************************************************** To access the complete 9 kB post please click on <http://bit.ly/cMwTB9>. Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands President, PEdants for Definitive Academic References which Recognize the Invention of the Internet (PEDARRII) <[email protected]> <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake> <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi> <http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com> <http://iub.academia.edu/RichardHake> "You can write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by 'Science' or 'Nature.' Big ideas in all fields endure dismissals, mockeries, and persecutions (for them and their creators)." Paul C. Lauterbur, cowinner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2003/press.html> whose seminal 1973 paper on magnetic resonance imaging was originally rejected by "Nature." REFERENCES [URL's shortened by <http://bit.ly/>] Hake, R.R. 2010. "Re: Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review" online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at <http://bit.ly/cMwTB9>. Post of 25 Aug 2010 09:05:15-0700. The abstract and link to the complete post were also transmitted to various discussion lists. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=4414 or send a blank email to leave-4414-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
