Joe D » peer review http://joe.dunckley.me.uk The syndicated and amalgamated writings of Joe D Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:04:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Journalology: Peer review in the dock http://joe.dunckley.me.uk/2010/03/journalology-peer-review-in-the-dock/ http://joe.dunckley.me.uk/2010/03/journalology-peer-review-in-the-dock/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:21:52 +0000 Joe http://joe.dunckley.me.uk/?p=46 Continue reading →]]> Academic publishing, and peer review in particular, was headline news in February — from stem cell researchers claiming that their work was being sabotaged by reviewers with conflicts of interest, to mainstream news noticing the absurdity of the impact factor situation. BBC Radio 4 must have decided that now was a good time to air an unedited repeat of 2008′s documentary Peer Review in the Dock. So now certainly seems like a good time to post an unedited repeat of my comments from the time.

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