Category: Peer review

There is, of course, a simpler method that you don’t have to pay for: When it comes to social psychology, we are all experts, by necessity. more

Was plagiarism always this common, but only recently easy to detect, using machine methods? more

“Peer-review selection isn’t a practical priority for a website like arxiv.org, because there is little cost associated with letting dross rot quietly in a forgotten corner of the site. ” more

Of course, cleaning house at those journals would be a darn good idea, but let’s not break out the bubbly yet. more

“Nothing will corrode public trust more than a creeping awareness that scientists are unable to live up to the standards that they have set for themselves.” more

“After publishing a paper on a rare head-and-neck cancer, he learned the cells he had been studying were instead cervical cancer.” more

“This is a more polite way of saying “We want to see how much of what gets published turns out to be bunk.”” more