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Let's not forget about self-sustaining communities: 15 erasmus friends cite each other, and peer review each other. In few years, one/two/ten of them will be
by bigd 13y ago
Let's not forget about self-sustaining communities:
15 erasmus friends cite each other, and peer review each other.
In few years, one/two/ten of them will be also editors of more or less decent journals (Impact factor usually between 4 and 12). Most of them will publish 10/15 papers per year, on their companion journal. Which is a good throughput for having founds.
And if one is caught saying bullshit, 14 "experts" will protect him.
As an example see Stellacci story here http://raphazlab.wordpress.com/ http://raphazlab.wordpress.com/
- leoc 13y agoWell, that's eye-opening. So the rot seems to have reached materials science?
- bigd 13y agoI've been in the community 5yrs now. And I've seen a little bit of everything. This is my favorite one so far: A, B, C write paper, submit to his pal D. D appoints E,F,G as reviewers. C, and E were in school together. F was a C student. G sends the paper back to C to auto-review it. C cannot be bothered, so delegates the review back to A. A reviews his first name paper. (poor phd student B doesn't even know) yay peer review!