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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I used to have trust in the peer review process, thinking this is why it takes months or years for a paper to get published. Are you telling me it’s not real?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (2 children)

iwriting reviews is time consuming, unpaid, and doesn't help the reviewers career. so it takes a while because reviewers are already busy and don't prioritize writing reviews too much.

quality of the reviews is questionable. 10% of the reviews are through and provide valuable feedback. the remaining 90% are cursory "yeah this is interesting, publish it" or "not interesting/outside scope".

very very few reviews find and report scientific errors

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Though errors are somewhat monitored by Retraction Watch.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

find and report scientific errors

Hell, the fact that any articles have been published with the openAI "I can't provide up-to-date info" means that shit's not getting read properly, overall.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Depends on what journal is reviewing the paper.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Sounds like you already worked it out.