The Promise and Perils of Pre-Publication Review: A Multi-Agent Simulation of Biomedical Discovery Under Varying Levels of Review Stringency
Jeff Shrager · 2010
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Jeff Shrager simulated scientific publishing under different review rules, in PLOS ONE in 2010. Peer review before publication is science's main quality gate. The internet made looser and tighter gates both possible, and debate about them runs hot. Real journals cannot be experimented on lightly, so a simulation offers a safer test bed.
Virtual scientists in the model made discoveries, wrote them up, and passed review gates of varying strictness. Very loose gates flooded the record with errors. Very strict gates slowed true findings and wasted reviewer effort. Middle settings performed best overall. The model cannot settle the debate, but it gives reformers numbers instead of slogans.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jeff Shrager |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2010 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| LICENSE | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS ONE |
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0010782