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Looking at https://plaudit.pub https://plaudit.pub and trying to understand it. It seems like a technical solution trying to solve a social problem (which I dar
by als0 4y ago
Looking at https://plaudit.pub https://plaudit.pub and trying to understand it. It seems like a technical solution trying to solve a social problem (which I dare say is impossible). There's too much politics in academia for researchers to objectively endorse work of other research groups.
- Vinnl 4y agoThanks for taking a look. I think the problem you signal is already present in peer review as well, unfortunately: the politics also influences reviewer's accept/reject recommendations. With Plaudit, at least, the endorsements are public, which we hope will mitigate phenomena like review rings.
- als0 4y agoBlinded peer review at least enforces some degree of impartiality and anonymity, though obviously challenging in practice.
- Vinnl 4y agoIt tries to enforce that, but as you said, there's very little proof that that works, and strong indications that it does not: https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2015/05/13/weighing-up-anonymity-and-openness-in-publication-peer-review/ https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2015/05/13/weighing-up-anon... Anonymity obviously can't be provided when reviews or endorsements are public, but partiality can at least be detected more easily.