An interesting and very relevant report on this topic appeared on the
blog on 14th April...
"Often referred to as the ‘the worst system imaginable except
for all others’, peer review itself was under review on Monday 21 April, at the
Experimental Biology conference in Boston. A panel, organised by BioMed Central
and energetically chaired by Gregory Petsko, took on the issues faced by
academics and editors in peer review....
Perhaps open review and new platforms of communication will provide a solution. Laurie Goodman, Editor in Chief of Gigascience
referred to the review of one manuscript late last year when a reviewer
blogged his review – something that would traditionally be a cause for
alarm. The paper was on preprint server and already available for
comment, and contrary to the expected negative effects, the ensuing
discussion of the paper and review by the author, editors, tweeters and
bloggers added to the paper significantly. Goodman says: “In 20 years of
peer review, this was the first time where the review process was an
absolute blast.”"
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