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

[armstrong]

>Dear Maya,
>
>Current technology can solve the problem you raise. Instead of 
>censorship by reviewers, a reader could merely click to sort papers 
>by quality (e.g., as judged by original reviewers,  by readers,  by 
>number of citations, by the amount of time spent by readers, or by 
>whether they have been replicated/extended). And given that we are 
>reducing the value of a publications for authors, there would be 
>fewer papers that need to be sorted.
>
>Scott
>
>>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
>
>
>--
>
>J. Scott Armstrong
>Professor of Marketing, 747 Huntsman, The Wharton School, U. of PA, 
>Phila, PA 19104
>http://www.jscottarmstrong.com
>home phone 610 622 6480
>Home address: 645 Harper Ave., Drexel Hill, PA 19026
>Fax at school: 215 898 2534


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J. Scott Armstrong
Professor of Marketing, 747 Huntsman, The Wharton School, U. of PA, 
Phila, PA 19104
http://www.jscottarmstrong.com
home phone 610 622 6480
Home address: 645 Harper Ave., Drexel Hill, PA 19026
Fax at school: 215 898 2534
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