To be fair, organising academics is probably quite like herding cats. I can
see it being expensive (but not quite as expensive as currently!) I wonder:
would it be possible to make it so that in order to publish a paper, a
person has to review two, three, four others as part of their payment?
Or is that a silly idea?[1]
Richard
[1] It's probably a very silly idea
On 25 September 2012 16:19, Kat Walsh <kat(a)mindspillage.org> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Risker
<risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 24 September 2012 21:20, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
<cimonavaro(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
It's funny, most organizations point to our
community as am example of
how
to manage such things with volunteers.
Another example: law reviews offer an excellent and widely reproduced
model
where the most esteemed publications are run by
students.
Well, perhaps. But their "peer review" is courtrooms, where the decisions
are made publicly and are produced by the justice system free of charge
to
the journals. Otherwise, the articles are
written by students with
faculty
advisors reviewing their work. I don't think
anyone wants medical
studies
to be "peer reviewed" by medical
students.
FWIW, I was on a peer-reviewed law journal (there are a few) where
students managed the reviewer-wrangling process, with the occasional
aid and input of an also-unpaid faculty advisor.
-Kat
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