Amazon Peer Review: Coming To A Preprint Near You
Starting today, anyone who visits the online retailer Amazon will soon be able to review manuscripts, just like pens, sneakers, and toiletry products.
Starting today, anyone who visits the online retailer Amazon will soon be able to review manuscripts, just like pens, sneakers, and toiletry products.
With a new partnership with F1000, Wellcome embraces sketchy peer review standards, deep conflicts of interest, and financial support of a private, commercial enterprise. Worse, the entire thing seems redundant, avoidable, and unnecessary.
Peerage of Science’s Janne-Tuomas Seppänen discusses their new peer review offering for authors and journals.
All primary data should be made openly available, a UK government report recommends.
Do the benefits of open peer-review outweigh the costs? A BMJ study argues “yes,” but there are caveats.