Comment on Elsevier

Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Like arxiv.org?

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  • Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does it have all the new research paper regarding medicine and pharmacological action and newer drug interactions and stuff?

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s not what was asked for though lol

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• Sal@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some time last year I learned of an example of such a project (peerreview on GitHub):

  The goal of this project was to create an open access “Peer Review” platform:

  Peer Review is an open access, reputation based scientific publishing system that has the potential to replace the journal system with a single, community run website. It is free to publish, free to access, and the plan is to support it with donations and (eventually, hopefully) institutional support.

  It allows academic authors to submit a draft of a paper for review by peers in their field, and then to publish it for public consumption once they are ready. It allows their peers to exercise post-publish quality control of papers by voting them up or down and posting public responses.

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  I just looked it up now to see how it is going… And I am a bit saddened to find out that the developer decided to stop. The author has a blog in which he wrote about the project and about why he is not so optimistic about the prospects of crowd sourced peer review anymore: theroadgoeson.com/crowdsourcing-peer-review-proba…

  It is only one opinion, but at least it is the opinion of someone who has thought about this some time and made a real effort towards the goal, so maybe you find some value from his perspective.

  Personally, I am still optimistic about this being possible. But that’s easy for me to say as I have not invested the effort!

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I do like the intermediaries that have popped up, like PubPeer. I highly recommend that everyone get the extension as it adds context to many different articles.

    pubpeer.com

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    • Sal@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s really cool, I will use it

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      • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s been surprisingly helpful, it even flags linked pages, like on Wikipedia.

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  • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This kind of thing needs to be started by universities and/or research institutes. Not the code part, but the organising the first journals part. It’s going to get nowhere without establishment buy-in.

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• No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean a paper is renowned if many people cute from it

  We could just try citing more free papers, whenever possible (as long as they still have peer review)

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  • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Citation count is a shoddy metric for a paper’s quality. Not just because there’s citation cartels, but because the reason stuff gets cited is not contained in the metric. And then to top it all off as soon as a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a metric.

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• vin@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Challenge is how to jump start a platform where the researchers come to

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