It’s clear that peer-review process
is totally necessary to ensure the quality of the research publications and has
so far been a valid option and, as I think, it could still be valid for certain
areas of research such humanities, maybe.
Nowadays, in the age of
internet and new technologies, it's possible and necessary to share results as
soon as possible especially in some research areas such as health, technology,
…
However, as I said before, I
think that peer-review is a essential process to ensure the quality of the research
results, but has a serious problem, the delay. Delays (months or even years)
caused by repeated rejection of the publication and the generation of several
versions of the paper, in many cases, until it’s accepted and published.
Anyway, I don't think the
solution is to publish without any type of review as we have now accomplished
in OpenAccess mode. I have read recently about F1000 program (Open Peer Review)
and I think that it’s a good solution:
F1000 Research is a
far-reaching alternative Open Access publishing program in biology and
medicine. It challenges traditional scholarly publishing models by defining new
standards for:
Speed: Immediate publication following a
rapid internal review,
Peer
Review: Fast,
formal, and completely open peer review post publication,
Data
Publication: F1000
Research promotes
publication, refereeing and sharing of full datasets to encourage collaboration
and accelerate scientific discovery,
Publishing
Good Science:
We support the publication of all sound research, including work that can be
hard to publish in traditional journals.
In this way, the researchers
can publish their articles almost immediately to increase the science
dissemination in an Open Access way. The article is published immediately as
‘awaiting peer review’ and sent to 3-5 expert referees. These referees, must
say if the article ‘seems ok’ as soon as possible, within 2 weeks, and then
provide a more standard report, within two weeks more. In this two status, the
results are published immediately in an open way. F1000 program also encourage
the reuse of the results.
I really think it’s a good
alternative to the traditional peer-review.
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