John Adler, MD, Professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford University; Editor-in-Chief, Curēus, has published a new editorial on the variety of issues associated with the centuries-old industry of peer reviewed scientific publication.
In today’s internet age, can the status quo peer review system provide value to our society – or is there a better way for “establishing scientific validity” and dissemination of knowledge?
Dr. Adler highlights some of the serious hurdles with current traditional peer review (i.e. fraud, and reviewer bias) and proposes to re-imagine peer review to become more suitable to our internet age. In a digital platform, the space limits within paper journals are gone. Without having to ration the space, there is no need to “kill” papers and artificially limit the number of papers published in a given month.
And to assess the quality of these papers Adler proposes crowd sourcing. To tap into the collective intelligence via Curēus’ Scholarly Impact Quotient (SIQ). The SIQ is an “evolving, yet enduring reflection of a paper’s true scientific impact.”
Dr. Adler founded Curēus “to address the challenges I have observed first-hand as an editor of numerous journals and an academic physician who has published and reviewed for years. We can do much better by authors, reviewers and certainly patients. This is the mission of Curēus.”
Source: A new age of peer reviewed scientific journals – John R. Adler Jr
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