{"id":5980,"date":"2012-05-10T19:23:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T17:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=5980"},"modified":"2012-05-10T19:23:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T17:23:38","slug":"peer-review-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2012\/05\/peer-review-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"Peer Review Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a recent call for a conference in my mailbox ( July 17th, Orlando, Florida, KGCM 2012<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Richard Smith also affirmed that regarding peer review there is \u201cmore evidence of harm than benefit&#8230;[and] Studies so far have shown that it is slow, expensive, ineffective, something of a lottery, prone to bias and abuse, and hopeless at spotting errors and fraud.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Smith, R, 2006, \u201cThe trouble with medical journals,\u201d Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol. 99, March, 2006, p. 116 (accessed at http:\/\/jrsm.rsmjournals.com\/content\/99\/3\/115.full.pdf)<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a recent call for a conference in my mailbox ( July 17th, Orlando, Florida, KGCM 2012 Richard Smith also affirmed that regarding peer review there is \u201cmore evidence of harm than benefit&#8230;[and] Studies so far have shown that it is slow, expensive, ineffective, something of a lottery, prone to bias and abuse, and hopeless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2012\/05\/peer-review-lottery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peer Review Lottery<\/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":[243,87,524],"class_list":["post-5980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-anonymous_reviewer","tag-paper","tag-peer_review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980","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=5980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5982,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980\/revisions\/5982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}