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How do you want this value to be demonstrated? Peer-reviewing is exactly this: peers evaluating the methodology and results of your experiment or idea. If this
by kensai 10y ago
How do you want this value to be demonstrated? Peer-reviewing is exactly this: peers evaluating the methodology and results of your experiment or idea. If this is faulty, imagine how much more faultier is an attempt to pre-print without even passing that step, which mind you, is pretty important for major journals such as Nature or Science.
Peer-reviewing has a lot of weak points, but saying that pre-print is the answer to them all is plainly wrong.
- ci5er 10y agoIt doesn't seem that anyone is saying that we need to get rid of the (admittedly valuable and proven) peer-review model of publishing in journals. Or that this is uniformly better for all use-cases, esp. those that peer-review excels at. It's merely a supplement to peer-reviewed journals that has some nice characteristics, for some use-cases, which has been beneficial, to some researchers, in some fields.