tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post1308167111418759902..comments2024-03-28T02:31:38.608-07:00Comments on DSHR's Blog: Crowd-sourced Peer ReviewDavid.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-19357473072694461532017-09-05T05:49:28.864-07:002017-09-05T05:49:28.864-07:00Who is Actually Harmed by Predatory Publishers? by...<a href="http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/867/1041" rel="nofollow"><i>Who is Actually Harmed by Predatory Publishers?</i></a> by Martin Paul Eve and Ernesto Priego argues, as I have for <a href="http://blog.dshr.org/2007/04/mass-market-scholarly-communication.html" rel="nofollow">more than a decade</a> that:<br /><br />"established publishers have a strong motivation to hype claims of predation as damaging to the scholarly and scientific endeavour while noting that, in fact, systems of peer review are themselves already acknowledged as deeply flawed."<br /><br />Hat tip to <a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/09/links-9517.html" rel="nofollow">Jerri-Lynn Scofield at <i>naked capitalism</i></a>.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-47628582387193192822017-07-16T12:44:41.255-07:002017-07-16T12:44:41.255-07:00At the South China Morning Post, Stephen Chen'...At the <i>South China Morning Post</i>, Stephen Chen's <a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2102438/million-dollar-question-chinas-relentless-academic-paper-chase" rel="nofollow"><i>The million-dollar question in China’s relentless academic paper chase</i></a> takes off from the US$2M award to a team from Sichuan Agricultural University for a paper in <i>Cell</i> to look at the broader issue of:<br /><br />"China’s “cult-like” paper chase and the rewards that go along with it." <br /><br />In this case the award might actually make sense. The paper describes: <br /><br />"a genetic variant in rice that could help the crop resist rice blast, a fungus that cuts the country’s output by about 3 million tonnes a year. Since the gene occurs naturally in rice, the researchers found that existing species could be tweaked safely and quickly to acquire the trait, passing it on to future generations."<br /><br />so it is clearly important. But:<br /><br />"it was the publication – rather than the research itself – that prompted the university to give Chen’s team a 13 million yuan (HK$ 15 million) reward, the biggest ever to a Chinese team for a paper in an international journal."<br /><br />However:<br /><br />"most of the money would go to Chen’s laboratory as research funds over five years. The team members would also receive 500,000 yuan in cash."<br /><br />Providing resources to continue this team's research makes sense.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-43866096823143764602017-06-13T09:33:40.321-07:002017-06-13T09:33:40.321-07:00Angela Cochrane's Should We Stop with the Comm...Angela Cochrane's <a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/04/27/stop-commenting-already/" rel="nofollow"><i>Should We Stop with the Commenting Already?</i></a> asserts that:<br /><br />"Crowdsourced peer review = post publication peer review = online commenting"<br /><br />Well, List and Höfler's model isn't post-publication and it isn't online commenting. Faculty of 1000's model distinguishes between reviews and comments. So the assertion isn't exact. Both models solicit reviews.<br /><br />On the other hand, Cochrane's analysis does show that "online commenting" on scientific articles in the sense of unsolicited comments is not effective.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.com