Showing posts with label peer review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peer review. Show all posts
Monday, September 23, 2024

A 40 year old proof about top trading cycles is corrected (by two Berkeley grad students)

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 Science (and math) can be self-correcting, sometimes slowly.  Here's an article that corrects the first proof that the top trading cycl...
Friday, September 15, 2023

Regulating research and research misconduct

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  Peer review is a clunky process that often misfires, but it helps to keep up the quality of published research. Much the same can be said ...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

Congestion in peer review, and an experiment in Nature (the journal)

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 Too many papers, and not enough qualified reviewers willing or able to spend the time reviewing them.  And when a paper is reviewed, revise...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

Pushback against high prices in academic publishing: open access fees and e-textbooks to libraries

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  The Guardian has the story: ‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees. Entire board resigns over actions ...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Mega-Journals and scientific publishing

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  Academic publishing is getting more varied. A recent article in JAMA focuses on the rise of 'mega-journals,' which seek to publish...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Modern peer review: how it evolved since the 1950's in Sociology

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 Peer review is a big part of the design of modern academic publishing in scholarly journals. It wasn't always that way, and the current...
Saturday, December 30, 2017

Law Review submissions

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Law reviews, often among the most prestigious publications for law professors, are unusual in a number of respects.*  They are edited by st...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Ed Glaeser reviews Who Gets What and Why in the Journal of Economic Literature

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Ed has written a generous review in the Journal of Economic Literature , of my book and of the field of market design. His review gave me a...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Fake peer reviews appear to be a problem in some fields

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Scientific publishing is full of challenges, but fake peer reviews are an issue which as far as I am aware is not a significant problem in ...
Monday, November 2, 2015

Who Gets What and Why in Dutch

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Here is a book review in Dutch of the English version of Who Gets What and Why , by Burak Can . And here is his translation of his review ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Alex Tabarrok reviews Who Gets What and Why in the WSJ

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Who Gets What and Why  is reviewed very generously by Alex Tabarrok in the Wall Street Journal : Matchmaker, Make Me a Market--In some ma...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Peer review as a club good

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Peer review is a system that scientists love to criticize, and occasionally changes are suggested in the design of this important part of th...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

Will reputation and crowd sourcing facilitate alternative forms of peer review?

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That's the question raised in a (gated) article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about a proposal to publish papers online, and then...