November 2011
2 posts
Richard Smith: A woeful tale of the uselessness of... →
Richard Smith argues for doing away with pre-publication peer review. He makes some sound observations, but needs data to make his case. Perhaps his paper would have been published more quickly if he had sent it to a more topical journal instead of more general journals like the BMJ and PLoS One.
Ultimately, I think we need to do away with journals entirely. Let’s just have databases.