(August 29, 2018 at 9:22 am)Mathilda Wrote:(August 29, 2018 at 9:08 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: So then, most of the peer review happens outside of and really apart from the publishing process.
I did not say that in the slightest.
Ok.... but it would seem that a wider audience means that it that it would be reviewed more (the publishers review is just a quick check for publishing) rather than by only a few peers (often undergrads). As I said, I think that it is understandable from a standpoint of a journal deciding what it is going to publish. However it has come under a lot of criticism for allowing some really bad and even fake papers, and denying that which has later earned a nobel prize. Which is why I prefer to here the arguments, rather than just that it passed (or not) peer review. I think that people put too much focus on it is all, and it leads scientist to cheapen their work, to get peer review and therefore money.
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