Re: [Phys-l] Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review

[Richard Hake <rrhake@earthlink.net>]

Some subscribers Phys-L might be interested in a recent post  "Re: 
Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review" [Hake (2010)].

The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: Some subscribers might be interested in Patricia Cohen's 
(2010) NYT report "Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review." 
Cohen wrote: "Clubby exclusiveness, sloppy editing and fraud have all 
marred peer review on occasion. Anonymity can help prevent personal 
bias, but it can also make reviewers less accountable; exclusiveness 
can help ensure quality control but can also narrow the range of 
feedback and participants." I give several examples of sloppy editing 
by "The American Journal of Physics."
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands
President, PEdants for Definitive Academic References which Recognize the
      Invention of the Internet (PEDARRII)
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<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
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"You can write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in 
terms of papers rejected by 'Science' or 'Nature.' Big ideas in all 
fields endure dismissals, mockeries, and persecutions (for them and 
their creators)."
     Paul C. Lauterbur, cowinner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in 
Physiology or Medicine
       <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2003/press.html>
       whose seminal 1973 paper on magnetic resonance imaging was originally
        rejected by "Nature."


REFERENCES [URL's shortened by <http://bit.ly/>]
Hake, R.R. 2010. "Re: Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review" 
online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at <http://bit.ly/cMwTB9>.  Post 
of 25 Aug 2010 09:05:15-0700. The abstract and link to the complete 
post were also transmitted to various discussion lists.