An Old-Age Problem Among Reviewers?
Are older reviewers more cursory in their reviews? A study by the editor of the Annals of Emergency Medicine suggests as much.
Peer Review Survey 2009
Providing incentives to reviewers may be key to improving the peer review process.
Paying for Peer-Review — or, What We’ve Learned from Financial Watchdogs
A common systemic problem links oversight of financial risks and author-pays peer-review. Both are potentially calamitous.
Chaos Still Publishing Former Editor’s Work
The journal that sparked a peer-review controversy has resumed publishing its ousted editor’s work.
Open Access Publisher Accepts Nonsense Manuscript for Dollars
Will $800 buy you a publication in a Bentham Science journal?
The Tip of an Iceberg?
The Bentham experiment suggests that a poorly managed payment system may be the root of a larger problem emerging in academic publishing.
Chaos Journal Preparing to Close Shop?
No new editor, a submission stop, and an announcement to authors to select another journal. As if this weren’t enough, the backlog of unpublished manuscripts is being cleared at an unprecedented rate.
Chaos Plays Catch-up
An embattled math journal resumes publishing without its editor. Is this journal preparing to close shop?
Chaos Continues in Math Journal
Publisher asks for submission stop while searching for new editor-in-chief.
A Journal Feeds Wikipedia
A journal begins requiring authors to submit peer-reviewed pages to Wikipedia. Is this a great idea?
Funding UK Research
The Research Assessment Exercise is slow and expensive. Abandoning peer-review for quantitative assessment may lead to excessive gaming and corrupt the indicators of quality.
Peer-Review Scandal Shakes French Geologists
The abuse of editorial power and favoritism leads to a national scandal in France.
Banking on Peer Review
Scholarly publishers risk following the newspaper industry if they don’t value peer-review.
The Soft Underbelly of Science
What can be learned about science and publishing from the El Naschie controversy?
Self-Publishing Editor to Retire
Controversial self-publishing editor, El Naschie, to step down in 2009. Professional affiliations cast in doubt.