Comment by nonbel
7 years ago
>"I just know there's some hungry entrepreneurs waiting to pounce on the idea of a "Modern Peer Review Journal" startup, but you will not be 'disrupting' this industry anytime soon I'm afraid."
What would they add beyond sci-hub?
one (far-fetched) idea would be peer-reviewed experimental research videos. See how the authors did the steps in their study. When an author writes up their experimental steps as a reader we are told the best version of events, however, the map is not the territory. Writing up research tells us little about the quality of the work, which is inferred from the publication, quality of writing, lab group, funding body etc.
Also, it would give the people doing the grunt work and gathering the experimental data some visibility rather than just the lead author.
The Journal of Visualized Experiments [0, 1] publishes peer-reviewed videos of experimental research. You should check it out if you're interested.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Visualized_Experime... [1] https://www.jove.com/
thanks, super cool - I feel like this should be part of the peer review process, especially for high impact journals with novel findings
Are they doing this and putting it on youtube, etc? If not then there is apparently no demand for it. And JOVE is a useful tool.
I wanted to try researchers wearing go pros or similar while collecting the data and all of this archived. You never know what detail someone may care about later.