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I guess as I'm thinking about it and reading through the comments, I'm maybe ok with the reviews being available, although I still believe anonymity is importan
by skat20phys 7y ago
I guess as I'm thinking about it and reading through the comments, I'm maybe ok with the reviews being available, although I still believe anonymity is important as an option (although I'm not sure true anonymity can exist with publicly available text, so I go back and forth about that).
I'm not convinced review quality will improve with completely open reviews, because there's too many opportunities for retribution. Sure reviews that kill papers through a thousand tiny irrelevant cuts would probably go to the wayside more often, but my guess so to would very trenchant, highly critical reviews that make important but controversial points.
- ColanR 7y agoFair point. Anonymous reviews do seem important from what you're saying. Maybe a combination - anonymous commentary published alongside the papers themselves would be the best of both worlds. As a reader, I know that I would be extremely interested in expert commentary on the journal articles I read.