Wednesday, January 23, 2008

No Revision Policy

The status of peer review in Economics has been spoken about a lot lately. Bruno Frey, in particular, has written some blasting attacks on the tendency for the peer-review process to turn in to a form of academic prostitution with authors making amendments they dont fully agree with solely to get published. Partly as a response to this trend, Economic Inquiry have launched a "no revisions" option. The full rationale is explained below by the editor

http://www.mcafee.cc/EI/NoRevisions.html

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Uncle Sam’s Biomedical Archive
Still Wants Your Papers - in fact more than ever:

Read story from Science

Anonymous said...

There's something up with how Blogger and the html are reacting above.

Here's the dead link:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/
reprint/319/5861/266.pdf