#PeerReview has proven to be an abysmal, unfixable, no-good, bad, stinking, wasteful, harmful experiment.
It is high time to just abolish peer review (and thereby, abolish the un-meritocratic power structures and the profiteering leeching us, which depend on false premises of peer review). Abolish it now.
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #AbolishPeerReview
https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review
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@janneseppanen so what are your thoughts on the new elife approach then ? (obviously they also want money) - I still think Peerage was a good thing, but the world probably not ready for it yet
@gernot I have not followed new developments. Trying to have a sustainable business model is not bad in itself, quite the opposite.
As for Peerage. It was a doomed attempt to fix some aspects (quality, efficiency of reviews) from within the parameters of an unfixable, fundamentally unsound culture. I no longer believe in peer review, at all.