Stop submitting papers.

peter.suber's bookmarks 2016-10-15

Summary:

"This is burdening the peer review process for very little return (because these comments, important as they may be, do not make the paper more correct or more robust).

Here is what we should do: stop submitting papers to journals.

Wait, what? No, I mean it. We should write our draft, go over it with our co-authors, and then put it on a preprint server. And wait. Some reasonable amount of time. A year, maybe. After a year, when we had the opportunity to share this paper with colleagues, then we can submit it...."

Link:

https://medium.com/@tpoi/stop-submitting-papers-32db87b3f975#.z2283yv8q

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Tags:

oa.new oa.peer_review oa.preprints oa.repositories.disciplinary oa.green oa.speed oa.versions oa.repositories

Date tagged:

10/15/2016, 18:08

Date published:

10/15/2016, 14:08