[Insight-users] SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING: The End of the "Review Nightmare" (Part 1)

[Luis Ibanez]

Journal of Biology in experiment to end 'review nightmare'

As of this month, Journal of Biology initiates a 're-review opt-out
scheme' whereby
once authors have revised their paper in response to peer review it is
their choice
whether the reviewers see it again. The experiment was inspired by the
widespread
frustration with current peer review practices and is strongly
supported by a majority
of the Editorial Board of the journal.


  '...something surely needs to be done about
   the review nightmare that so many people face'

                                                         Arthur Lander, UCSD

    '...what is in the paper is fundamentally the
     responsibility of the authors, not of the reviewers'

                                                          Robert Horvitz, MIT


In an editorial introducing the scheme, Miranda Robertson, the new
Editor of Journal of Biology,
explains that it continues the tradition of friendliness to authors
established by earlier editors,
and why its advantages outweigh its potential dangers. See the
accompanying blog for questions
and answers on how it will work, and see below for new content in January.

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See the editorial at
http://jbiol.com/content/8/1/1