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The Problems With Science Journals Trying to Be Gatekeepers – and Some Solutions – The Wire Science

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I’m not a significant contributor to the academic scientific literature but I am a big user of it. What I see has me worried, and itchy for the obvious solution. Science isn’t broken, but gatekeeping journals expected to give any kind of stamp of quality are. After the Surgisphere debacle (see my blog post, the big piece in The Guardian that blew it all sky high a few days later, and fallout from retractions from the world’s top two medical journals), I’ve been pondering scientific publishing and the failings of pre-publication peer review. Then a bunch of other examples emerged, including this retraction from Nature on mental health impact of gaming in Africa (87% of insomnia variance explained by gaming habits!), and this statistical-model-free piece on the impact of wearing masks in Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences (not retracted yet but I have hopes). And that’s not even a complete list of the bad, published, peer reviewed scientific articles I’ve seen taken up with c

The Sciences 18/06/2020 Peter Ellis Read Next Simulation: Early Adoption of Masks Will Protect You, and Others Too Photo: Oleg Magni/Pexels. I’m not a significant contributor to the academic scientific literature but I am a big user of it. What I see has me worried, and itchy for the obvious solution. Science isn’t broken, but gatekeeping journals expected to give any kind of stamp of quality are . After the Surgisphere debacle (see my blog post , the big piece in The Guardian that blew it all sky high a few days later, and fallout from retractions from the world’s top two medical journals), I

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