Soul Searching Over Peer Review
Phil Surguy,
National Post,
Dec 09, 2002
I think the central point of this article lies in the following observation: "Academia is playing a double game with journals. On the one hand, serious researchers know it doesn't necessarily mean anything, if a paper gets published. On the other hand, the promotion system and even the job market treat refereed publications as tangible achievements." As a result, "As a result, the career prospects of a scientist with scores of hack publications are far better than those of one who publishes a few quality papers." I think that until academics address this fundamental problem in the system, no prgress will be made in the field of scholarly publication. Which would be too bad.
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