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I would Love it if referee reports were published with papers. Why waste all of the unpaid time and research of the referees by compressing their opinions into
by kurtosis 16y ago
I would Love it if referee reports were published with papers. Why waste all of the unpaid time and research of the referees by compressing their opinions into a yes/no/revise decision? This would improve the quality of the reports, and make the process of reading papers much easier. One of the most difficult parts of reading a paper is trying to decide for yourself if the methods or conclusions of the paper are flawed. The referee reports are a valuable counterpoint from people who probably know more about a topic than you do!
- albertcardona 16y agoThe Journal of Brain Research does that, and did so for decades. But there is a bias: only papers with good reviews are published. What happens to good papers with bad reviews is that they don't get published, or get published elsewhere.