Thought for the month
"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen"
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. 1870 – 1924
Tuesday, 2 December 2014
No end of the peer review?
An article last month suggests that now the internet has made
it easy to share an unsolicited opinion, traditional methods of academic review
are beginning to show their age. It asserts that many believe that
long-standing metrics of academic research (eg peer review,
citation-counting, impact factor) are reaching breaking point. But we are not
yet in a position to place complete trust in the alternatives, such as altmetrics,
open science and post-publication review. Interestingly, at the same time, a
researcher is taking legal action against a website over anonymous online
comments about his work. Do we need better pre- and post- publication review
mechanisms, better publications or just a good lawyer?
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