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Peer review by committee? New journal rethinks old model
Teams of up to seven researchers are reviewing papers submitted to the Stacks Journal, which wants to bring evaluation of scientific work back from the brink.
I talked to other ecologists at conferences and field sites, and everyone was frustrated with the status quo of scientific publishing — from huge article-processing fees and long peer-review times to the rise of predatory journals. The result is the Stacks Journal ’s peer-review process, which was designed to reflect how people discuss ideas in the Internet age: meeting online to collaborate across social-media platforms, for example. For instance, in the nineteenth century, the Royal Society in London invited groups of scholars with expertise in specific topics to come together, debate new work and determine whether it would be published.
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