• bleistift2@feddit.de
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    5 months ago

    I used to have trust in the peer review process, thinking this is why it takes months or years for a paper to get published. Are you telling me it’s not real?

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      iwriting reviews is time consuming, unpaid, and doesn’t help the reviewers career. so it takes a while because reviewers are already busy and don’t prioritize writing reviews too much.

      quality of the reviews is questionable. 10% of the reviews are through and provide valuable feedback. the remaining 90% are cursory “yeah this is interesting, publish it” or “not interesting/outside scope”.

      very very few reviews find and report scientific errors

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        5 months ago

        find and report scientific errors

        Hell, the fact that any articles have been published with the openAI “I can’t provide up-to-date info” means that shit’s not getting read properly, overall.