Learning from open source software projects to improve scientific review

Peer-reviewed publications are the primary mechanism for sharing scientific results. The current peer-review process is, however, fraught with many problems that undermine the pace, validity, and credibility of science. We highlight five salient problems: (1) Reviewers are expected to have compreh...

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Main Authors: Satrajit S Ghosh, Arno eKlein, Brian eAvants, K. Jarrod Millman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2012.00018/full