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Re:Let’s make peer review scientific by untilHellbanned on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @10:54AM (#12043453)
As an academic in biomedical sciences and as someone who tried to create a journal that did all the things the OP said, thank you.

The old crappy system is mandatory. You can't decide to do otherwise and still have a job.

The impetus for change needs to start at the funding source level, NIH. They need to make a journal that one is required to publish in order to keep your funding.

Re:Let’s make peer review scientific by apathy on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @05:59PM (#12046150)
They have one (several, actually). The trouble is that they're called Cell, Nature, and Science; they're all for-profit; and they answer to no one.

The Wellcome Trust is walking the walk that NIH talked for the past decade. We will see how this goes. Cross fingers.

Re:Let’s make peer review scientific by untilHellbanned on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @08:28PM (#12046789)
With ELife?
Re:Let’s make peer review scientific by apathy on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @11:46PM (#12047376)
No, much bigger. They're going to start requiring OA.
Re:Let’s make peer review scientific by untilHellbanned on Thursday July 07, 2016 @08:57AM (#12048986)
Peer review also needs a reboot. It's epically unhelpful and slows down publishing dramatically, Think they should mandate post publication review.
Re:Let’s make peer review scientific by apathy on Thursday July 07, 2016 @01:27PM (#12050793)
The review model in the WTC's new world order is open, as it currently is in the F1000 journals, and the Wellcome Trust pays the APC so there is no excuse for grantees not to publish. This slowly kicks away all the bullshit excuses that are presented for lack of scientific productivity so that the funder can objectively assess "what are these people doing with our money, and does that advance real, non-press-release science?" It's brilliant imho.

https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/why-were-launching-new-publishin...

Momentum is important. There's no reverse on a submarine. One of the biggest funders in the world has taken away a standard excuse for failing to openly report results, negative or otherwise. It is free to readers and free to authors funded by the Trust. And all of the reviewing process is out in the open.

This is a huge step. The only other funding body I can think of with similar weight is NIH, and (at least internally) they're starting to move in the same direction.

Re:Let’s make peer review scientific by untilHellbanned on Thursday July 07, 2016 @03:19PM (#12051527)
I'm a new professor in the US so I'm happy for you but it looks like we'll have to wait for the NIH to do its job.

F1000 is entirely post-publication review where reviewers identities are known? If so, I love it!

Re:Let’s make peer review scientific by apathy on Friday July 08, 2016 @12:08AM (#12053529)
The NIH does a pretty decent job all things considered. With an organization that size, there is considerable inertia, but newer blood is starting to fix some of the older problems.

Best of luck -- work on stuff that matters, if you can :-)