[JoPP-Public] Re : Re: Improving peer review for JoPP

28 Mar 2012

      Hi Felix, Athina, all

I think this is a very good idea and I'd like to add to it. My first suggestion is non-controversial:
-if the article is submitted somewhere else and published [and we find out about it] we could publish a link to that version
My second suggestion may be a deterrent for some authors:
-we could publish alongside titles, abstracts, outcome (did not publish, etc) etc the reviews?

Another question is where this would appear on the site. There would need to be a specific page / groupe of pages. What would we call it? 

cheers

Mathieu

Le 03/28/12, Athina Karatzogianni  <[email protected]> a écrit :
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Hi All,
I wonder whether we can do what Felix suggests but publish in a separate place inside our site papers that didnt make it and have an archive that way of everything which was ever submitted to us, which is transparent. There might turn out to be lets say 30 papers over five years (i doubt there d be more than that) or whatever and we ll have a live record of this, if the authors who submitted them give their consent. We d have to get consent when they submit to us in the first place (in case this doesnt work out can we publish in the didnt make it archive?) Its one way to do it and we might be the first journal ever to do so...
why not? theres plenty of space online to do stuff like that
Athina
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Felix Stalder <[email protected]> wrote:
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I'm not sure if this is a good way, since we might end up publishing the
crappy version, whereas others get the good one.
But there could be an intermediary step. For example, one might publish
a list with all submissions (Name, Title, Abstract, and date of
submission) so it gets at least transparent if people are submitting
here first, and the take it somewhere else.
Felix
On 03/27/2012 02:29 PM, Mathieu ONeil wrote:
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ps. I'll answer my own question: a way to do that would be to explicitly
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state that a version of all submissions will be published, so that by
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the act of submitting to us authors are in fact agreeing for us to
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However in this scenario:
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-we may end up publishing more (duly signaled as such) crappy articles
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than we would wish, and
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On 03/27/12, *Mathieu ONeil * <[email protected]> wrote:
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Hi Christian, all
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Thanks for commenting. I can't respond address your points straight
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away but I am curious about how you propose to implement this part of
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your proposal : "((publishing all versions of a paper from the first
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submitted one (or, at least, the last negotiated version of each
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paper))) __without allowing the authors to pull out.__ "?
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How do we stop people from pulling out? Sign a blood oath over the
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Internet? ;-)
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cheers
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Mathieu
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On 03/27/12, *Christian Siefkes * <[email protected]> wrote:
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Hi Mathieu and all,
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On 03/26/2012 04:17 PM, Mathieu ONeil wrote:
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Openness undoubtedly has great virtues, but in the case of academic
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publishing it can also generate some bad side-effects.
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For this issue of JoPP five papers were sent out for review. Three
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papers will be published with reviews and signals. Two other papers
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were not
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great. Reviewers worked long and hard to address shortcomings and make
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suggestions.
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One author decided that it would not be possible to make these
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adjustments
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though much time kept being added.
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The other agreed to make changes but then used the time excuse as
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well as
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sickness.
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There is nothing preventing either author from now submitting their
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much-improved papers to another journal...
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In my view, we should try to address this obvious waste of reviewer
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editorial) work/energy.
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hmm, isn't this a problem of being (maybe) not open enough instead of
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being
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too open? In the experience from my own academic this, this is a quite
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possible scenario in the traditional peer review process: reviewers send
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criticism and suggestions, the author might then revise the paper and
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send
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back a revised version, or submit the revised version elsewhere.
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Especially
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if a paper is re-submitted by multiple journals (after being refused
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reviewer feedback -- by each of them), it would cause reviewers a lot of
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work. (Say if there are 3 reviewers per paper and you submit it
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sequentially
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to 4 journals, you would already occupy a dozen reviewers, while none of
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them would benefit of the work already done by others, since they
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don't know
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about it.) Also, if you re-submit a text sufficiently often, it
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becomes more
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and more likely to be accepted somewhere by pure chance, almost
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regardless
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of the quality of the paper, I would presume.
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The only chance to avoid that would be more openness, not less, i.e.
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publishing all versions of a paper from the first submitted one (or, at
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least, the last negotiated version of each paper), without allowing the
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authors to pull out. Not sure if we want to go this way, but blaming
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"openness" for the shortcomings of the current approach strikes my as
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definitively wrong.
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Best regards
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Christian
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