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Most code is buggy despite passing all tests. Publication is a sign of persistence, plausibility and a minimal quality check. Peer review improves articles, it
by Certhas 8y ago
Most code is buggy despite passing all tests.
Publication is a sign of persistence, plausibility and a minimal quality check. Peer review improves articles, it does not guarantee correctness.
That's also why one should be extremely careful about things that are not peer reviewed. Not because the bar is so high, but because it's so low.
- kolbe 8y agoJust because the bar is low doesn't mean its height is in any way related to its discernment of quality. Say, for example, the bar was simply based on the institution that the author is employed by. That may be a low bar in that anyone from Harvard can get a paper published, but it also doesn't actually tell us anything about the paper's validity. Whereas I wouldn't be skeptical of a good Rush University paper, simply because its authors weren't prestigious enough for Nature to pay attention to.
- Certhas 8y agoI was talking about getting your paper peer reviewed, not placing it in a particular journal. If you want to get into PLOS One I don't think your university matters very much.