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Why can't techincal papers use something similar to github/git Pull-request model?
by snambi 6y ago
Why can't techincal papers use something similar to github/git Pull-request model?
- dguest 6y agoCan you elaborate? Do you mean curating papers via pull request? If that's your question, the answer is that there's absolutely nothing in the way technologically: academics could easily form shoestring "journals" around a github README files with links to arXiv. As others have said, the real issue is historical: for better or worse the currency of science is still peer-reviewed publications in prestigious journals, and a lot of those journals are still owned by Elsevier. Obviously this is starting to change, but old traditions die hard.
- untilted 6y agohttps://xkcd.com/1831/ https://xkcd.com/1831/
- qchris 6y agoI think you're looking for something like the Journal of Open Source Software [0]. [0] https://joss.theoj.org/ https://joss.theoj.org/