[Tccc] Requesting open feedback to my work (Re: Promoting open on-line research)
Vida Rolland
vida
Thu Nov 3 10:19:12 EDT 2011
Dear Pars,
> The reviews should be publicly available to everyone.
First, I do not see how this statement relates to any of my previous
arguments.
Second, I do not agree with it. This is a matter of privacy. If you write a
bad paper, as a junior researcher, you would not like to see that the
reviews hammering you badly are made public. Also, your system does not
scale -tons of papers, with tons of public reviews, who will read them?
Rolland
From: Pars Mutaf [mailto:pars.mutaf at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 3:01 PM
To: Vida Rolland
Cc: Sakib Pathan; touch at isi.edu; tccc at lists.cs.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: [Tccc] Requesting open feedback to my work (Re: Promoting open
on-line research)
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Vida Rolland <vida at tmit.bme.hu> wrote:
IMO, the IETF model cannot be extended to general paper reviewing. In the
IETF there is a very limited number of internet drafts that are discussed by
the community, as opposed to the tons of papers that are written each year
by an increasing number of students and researchers from all over the world.
What works for 100 drafts/year would not work for 100.000 papers/year, as
simple as that.
Also, in the IETF there is an incentive for people to polish a draft as much
as possible, as there is a common interest to arrive to an RFC, and a
correct one, as soon as possible. But it still takes several years for a
draft to become an RFC, so it's not at all faster than a traditional journal
publication. What would be the incentive in the case of scientific papers?
Some papers would surely generate a nice on line discussion, but that would
be probably the case for only 1% of the papers, and that is an optimistic
forecast. What about the other 99% of the papers?
If you want just to get fast feedback for your work, there are several ways
to do it:
- send it to your colleagues first;
- send it to people you work with in some national or international
projects;
- send it to people you consider experts in the area, people whose work is
referenced in your paper;
- send it to Special Issues of some journals, they are much faster in
reviewing;
- post it publicly in an archive, if you wish. But why obliging everyone to
use this latter solution?
Cheers,
Pars
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