{"id":1492,"date":"2008-02-22T06:51:35","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T04:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2008\/02\/22\/phantastic-the-peer-review-system-is-broken\/"},"modified":"2008-02-22T14:41:12","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T12:41:12","slug":"phantastic-the-peer-review-system-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/02\/phantastic-the-peer-review-system-is-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"Phantastic, the peer-review system is broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A comment on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2008\/080220\/full\/451879f.html\">online Nature website<\/a> says it all<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Phantastic. Moreover, the peer-review system is broken with top PI&#8217;s getting away with publishing high impact poorly reviewed rubbish. If more non-peer-reviewed research becomes more prominent it will hardly make a difference to quality and can overall only be a good thing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>commenting on the recent decision at Harvard to automatically publish all papers by its Faculty of Arts and Sciences on the university&#8217;s website (except there is a waiver). I am waiting for the first German university to follow; effectively since January 2008 we get all our ordered documents on paper again for copyright reasons.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 10.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comment on the online Nature website says it all Phantastic. Moreover, the peer-review system is broken with top PI&#8217;s getting away with publishing high impact poorly reviewed rubbish. If more non-peer-reviewed research becomes more prominent it will hardly make a difference to quality and can overall only be a good thing. commenting on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/02\/phantastic-the-peer-review-system-is-broken\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phantastic, the peer-review system is broken<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1687,437,1688,1685,1684,1686,1690,1689],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-faculty-of-arts","tag-harvard","tag-high-impact","tag-nature-website","tag-peer-review-system","tag-phantastic","tag-pi","tag-rubbish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}