Journal’s new program: Choose your own reviewers – and get a decision in days - Retraction Watch at Retraction Watch

lterrat's bookmarks 2016-12-13

Summary:

"Peer review has numerous problems: Researchers complain it takes too long, but also sometimes that it is not thorough enough, letting obviously flawed papers enter the literature. Authors are often in the best position to know who the best experts are in their field, but how can we be sure they’ll choose someone who won’t just rubber stamp their paper? A new journal – mSphere, an open-access microbial sciences journal only one year old – has proposed a new solution. Early next year, they’re launching a project they call mSphereDirect in order to improve the publication process for authors. We spoke with Mike Imperiale, editor-in-chief at mSphere, about how this system will work."

Link:

http://retractionwatch.com/2016/12/12/journals-new-program-choose-reviewers-get-decision-days/

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oa.journals

Date tagged:

12/13/2016, 23:11

Date published:

12/13/2016, 18:11