{"id":248,"date":"2007-08-15T02:08:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T01:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2007-08-15T19:42:25","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T18:42:25","slug":"one-step-closer-to-the-open-review-system-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"One step closer to the open review system of the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>REVIEWS AND REVISIONS MADE PUBLIC<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/ps.jpg\" alt=\"ps.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is unnecessary secrecy around the review process. Forward-thinkers, such as those at Nature, have experimented with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/peerreview\/debate\/nature05535.html\" target=\"_blank\">open peer review<\/a>, but ultimately decided the world was not ready. However, large advances sometimes happen via small steps, and a toned-down version might open minds to open review.<\/p>\n<p>The good people over at the Journal of  Consumer Research are now making public what they call <em>teaching sets<\/em>(*), which are simply manuscripts and their accompanying reviews and revisions published for all to see:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ejcr.org\/teaching-sets\/teachingsets.html\" title=\"http:\/\/ejcr.org\/teaching-sets\/teachingsets.html\" eudora=\"autourl\">http:\/\/ejcr.org\/teaching-sets\/teachingsets.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While JCR&#8217;s idea is to &#8220;to make it easier for professors and their students\/advisees to discuss the  review process&#8221; (**), DSN thinks that opening up reviews in this way has an added benefit: it gives the world a privileged view into what a sample of informed readers really think. Do this long enough and we might approach something like scientific communication and advancement.<\/p>\n<p>ADDENDUM:<br \/>\nIn chatting with JCR after making this post, DSN has discovered that they too are not crazy about the name &#8220;teaching sets&#8221;.  DSN is hereby soliciting better names for these things, which it will pass on to JCR. Some ideas:<\/p>\n<p><font>Public Reviews<br \/>\nOpen Reviews<br \/>\nReviews Made Public<br \/>\nDeclassified  Reviews<br \/>\nReview Process Histories<br \/>\nReview Process Paper Trails<\/font><br \/>\n<em>{your idea here}<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Send your creative genius to dan at dangoldstein.com<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"> (*) Decision Science News does not like the name &#8220;teaching sets&#8221;<br \/>\n(**) Personal communcation<br \/>\nPhoto credit: http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photo_zoom.gne?id=513246074&amp;size=m<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REVIEWS AND REVISIONS MADE PUBLIC There is unnecessary secrecy around the review process. Forward-thinkers, such as those at Nature, have experimented with open peer review, but ultimately decided the world was not ready. However, large advances sometimes happen via small steps, and a toned-down version might open minds to open review. 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