Scientists can be more than a bit snarky with each other, especially in peer review.
That is the conclusion of a survey of the academic literature published in peer review journals since 1983 by William McBride of the Tax Foundation.
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That's why the IRS conducts audits, why Medicare employs fraud investigators, why courts have juries and judges, and why scholarly journals engage in peer review of papers submitted for publication.
More than 300 scientists were involved in the peer review process before the report's publication, co-ordinated by the US Global Change Research Programme.
The researchers who headed the new study (which has not been published in a peer-review journal, but will be presented at an upcoming conference) asked 600 adults in Germany about their feelings while using social media.
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The UK says a mechanism to ensure stability in the eurozone is desirable - and that the planned sanctions would not apply to the UK. But all 27 member states' budgets will come under close scrutiny in a "peer review" process.
All I can tell you is that my data were published after peer review in a scientific journal.
The first results will be available for peer review in the coming weeks.
Do we get enough peer review in a world of open communications?
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Although only hinted in the presentation quoted above, Hauser confirmed in the post session question and answer that he has submitted a manuscript for peer review on Durata failures in the MAUDE database.
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They organise peer review, in which papers are criticised anonymously by experts (though those experts, like the authors of papers, are rarely paid for what they do).
Yet Berkeley Earth's results, as described in four papers currently undergoing peer review, but which were nonetheless released on October 20th, offer strong support to the existing temperature compilations.
Written by Dr Alma Swan, an eminent expert in the field of Open Access, the draft went through an open consultation and peer review at the Open Access Community in the WSIS Knowledge Communities.
Under a pilot scheme due to begin next autumn, heads will be invited to inspect each other's schools, drawing on their knowledge of school management and leadership in a new kind of peer-review system.
These guidelines allow scientific techniques to be used in evidence, as long as the techniques have survived the scrutiny of peer review, use established error rates, and have general acceptance in the scientific community.
So will the peer-review mechanism survive in its intended, rigorous form?
My friend Melissa Pierce is running the Pitch Refinery, a two-day live event and a year-round online peer-review network, kicking off in Chicago on September 22nd and 23rd.
The details come from a report in The New York Times, which couches the news by explaining that the paper has not yet gone through peer review, an academic process by which new research is first vetted by others in the field.
Writing a book in public I was hoping to capture some of the peer review spirit.
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This most recent Benbrook article would likely have failed peer review by the vast majority of experts in this field.
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It was conducted by two authors that work for NMFS. This is an in-house process that is subject to very little peer review.
And, either way, you can go back in and keep tweaking, with no App Store standards or peer review except your own.
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In other words, biomedical research that has already gone through rigorous peer review and been given top priority is on hold.
If this is done, techniques that have not yet been widely adopted may be admissible provided that they have been published and subjected to peer review (ie, the anonymous scrutiny of other experts in the subject).
This is the sort of omission that peer review is intended to correct, but Dr Dar got in touch anyway, and Sir Martin agreed to make the change in the published version, which is about to come out in a journal called Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The authors of the paper, the peer-review process at Health Affairs and the media all failed in their responsibilities to the public.
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Their view is that working papers are for review by your peers, and only once you have published in a peer-reviewed academic journal should you circulate for a wider public, having gained the endorsement of the profession.
They revealed an unwillingness to share data which broke the spirit, if not the letter, of Britain's Freedom of Information act, an aggressive attitude to the peer review of papers by opponents and an apparent willingness to hedge science in the face of politics.
It is awarding these grants, on the basis of peer review, to some 430 of the 9, 137 researchers who put in bids for them.
And if anyone were foolish enough to do so in the open source community, such a design would not be likely to survive the peer review it would receive.
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