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Scientists are human and guidelines dictating acceptable behavior must exists and be enforced; just like any other field of work. A more open peer-review syste
by jefft255 7y ago
Scientists are human and guidelines dictating acceptable behavior must exists and be enforced; just like any other field of work.
A more open peer-review system would help this issue and expose abusers like this, but it's not clear (to me) how such a system could work... At least this issue does not directly affect the quality of research, but rather corrupt the already noisy quality metric of citation count.
- truncate 7y agoI think open peer-review system would be great. It would also keep reviewers much more careful and accountable for their work. It is a bit different than design docs/code review in the sense that, there are N different authors competing to grab a place in conference or journal -- so they may try to game the system, while in case of design docs/codereview there is no such competition.