Whose decision is it anyway?
Discussions – F1000 Research,
Who is ultimately responsible for the content of a research paper? Most of us would point at the authors: referees can assess…
Sharing responsibility for bad papers
NeuroDojo,
When you read a bad paper, whose fault is it? Robert Horvitz (quoted in Box 1 here; hat tip to Mike Taylor) and Fred Schram (who…
Painful publishing – whose fault?
BioMed Central,
In the five years since the publication of the ‘Painful publishing’ letter in Science by Martin Raff , Alexander Johnson and…
Supporting a new way to peer-review
BMC series blog,
BioMed Central journals BMC Biology, BMC Ecology, BMC Evolutionary Biology and Frontiers in Zoology now welcome manuscripts…