Hacker News with Generative AI: Peer Review

To what extent is science a strong-link problem? (svpow.com)
Here’s a fascinating and worrying news story in Science: a top US researcher apparently falsified a lot of images (at least) in papers that helped get experimental drugs on the market — papers that were published in top journals for years, and whose problems have only recently become apparent because of amateur sleuthing through PubPeer.

Science, Research, Scientific Misconduct, Peer Review

39 points by surprisetalk 22 days ago | 10 comments

The early days of peer review: five insights from historic reports (nature.com)
The UK Royal Society has more experience of peer review than most publishers, with the practice used by its journals for nearly 200 years.

Science, Publishing, History, Academia, Peer Review

61 points by rntn 36 days ago | 32 comments

Peer review by committee? New journal rethinks old model (nature.com)
The Stacks Journal is aiming to provide a faster, more transparent and trustworthy peer-review model by organizing committees of researchers to assess manuscripts.

Science, Peer Review, Academic Publishing

29 points by gnabgib 51 days ago | 2 comments

Cite-seeing and reviewing: A study on citation bias in peer review (plos.org)
Citations play an important role in researchers’ careers as a key factor in evaluation of scientific impact. Many anecdotes advice authors to exploit this fact and cite prospective reviewers to try obtaining a more positive evaluation for their submission.

Science, Peer Review, Research, Academia, Citations

5 points by amadeuspagel 53 days ago | 0 comments

Peer review is essential for science. Unfortunately, it's broken (arstechnica.com)

Science, Peer Review, Research

54 points by rbanffy 132 days ago | 48 comments