[Jdm-society] Increasing the Percentage of Papers Replicated: What about the Denominator?

[Maya Bar-Hillel]

Hi Scott,

> What does it mean to publish all papers submitted? Papers would be
> reviewed and the reviews would be published along with the paper.
> Authors would be given the opportunity to revise or withdraw their
> paper in light of the reviews. Given Internet capabilities, this
> policy can be carried out at a low cost. Signed moderated open peer
> review would be published alongside the papers at any time (as is
> done for products sold on Amazon), and authors would have an
> opportunity to respond.

I had to smile when I read your proposal.  It might (or might not) achieve
your goal, but the cost! the cost!  In fact, if the status quo in the
world of academic publishing were what you are proposing, things would be
so dismal, I fear, that to relieve them, someone would have invented the
... present system (i.e., if all papers were published, alongside referee
reports, somebody would have come up with the brilliant idea of only
publishing those that got favorable reviews).

Maya Bar-Hillel