Our proposal for scheduled post-publication review: “Even if each review took twice the effort of the average pre-publication review, our system would add only 1 percent to the total reviewing effort, while providing important perspectives on papers representing more than one-quarter of the citations received by these influential journals.”

The current system of scholarly journal review is absolutely nuts. The vast majority of review effort goes to papers that nobody reads. We can do better via scheduled post-publication review, for example every time a paper reaches its 250th citation, … Continue reading → …