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What’s wrong with peer review? Us. The reviewers.

Aug20 by cej9f

Peer review is often criticized for it’s lack of efficiency and frequently for making a paper… worse.

An article over at Code and Culture does a good job of summarizing the issue, complete with cool little videos that aptly describe how I think peer review feels.

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