3 ms·
As another poster noted, journals are communities of respected scientists. When I publish something in say, the American Journal of Epidemiology, I am publish s
by Fomite 12y ago
As another poster noted, journals are communities of respected scientists. When I publish something in say, the American Journal of Epidemiology, I am publish something in the official journal of a professional society.
The other problem is that "trust among scientists", and many proposals along those lines, implicitly favor the "Old Guard", who have larger networks to give reviews, and those networks will be less inclined to give them poor reviews.
- eevilspock 12y agoThe Old Guard problem is far worse when the gatekeepers are the small subset of scientist that control the journals. An open network of peer review allows for fringe, revolutionary or controversial research to gain a foothold among some scientists, and then gain support as people who respect these vanguard scientists take a first or second look, and so on.