Part two of our chat with Michael Eisen (eLife Editor-in-Cheif), in which we discuss the pros and cons of collaborative peer review, journal submission interfaces, Michael's take on James' proposal that peer reviewers should be paid $450 dollars, why negative comments on peer reviews need to be normalised, plus much more.
Some more details:
- The pros and cons of collaborative peer review (in which all peer reviewers discuss the paper after all individual peer reviews have been submitted
- How technology can constrain journal operations
- The strange engineered delay in paper reviews (I doesn't take 2-3 weeks to review a paper)
- Michael's proposal for a system in which people can nominate they have time in the near future to review a paper and then papers can be sent to them so they're rapidly reviewed
- Journal submission interfaces
- Michael's take on paying peer reviewers
- Who owns peer reviews?
- Would negative (anonomous or not) comments on an open peer review report penalise authors in the future?
- Every paper gets negative peer-review comments, this doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad paper
- Michael proposes an explicit "speculation" section for papers, where authors get free reign to basically say whatever they want
Other links
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- James on twitter (www.twitter.com/jamesheathers)
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Episode citation Special Guest: Michael Eisen.