Re:The Absurdity of Peer Review: What the Pandemic Revealed
by B1FF_PSUVM on Sunday June 06, 2021 @05:45PM
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> only one of Einstein’s 300 or so published papers was ever peer-reviewed, which so disgusted him that he never submitted a paper to that journal again
I never thought of this, and it is one of those shifts in habits and uses that go unremarked (until, of course, someone points them out like this piece did).
Perhaps due to the industrialization of research after the middle of the XX century?
Now that we don't really need to publish in journals, since anything can be made available on the internet, the filter of credibility can also be changed - for instance to something like being cited approvingly by other reputable researchers.
I never thought of this, and it is one of those shifts in habits and uses that go unremarked (until, of course, someone points them out like this piece did).
Perhaps due to the industrialization of research after the middle of the XX century?
Now that we don't really need to publish in journals, since anything can be made available on the internet, the filter of credibility can also be changed - for instance to something like being cited approvingly by other reputable researchers.