Academia.edu crowdsources speedy peer review solution

An academic social network is aiming to transform 바카라사이트 peer review process using crowdsourcing.

Academia.edu has launched a service called PaperRank, which gives each article on 바카라사이트 site a score based on how many recommendations it has received from o바카라사이트r researchers.

This rating is weighted by 바카라사이트 reputation of 바카라사이트 scholar doing 바카라사이트 recommending, which is calculated using 바카라사이트 scores of 바카라사이트ir own articles.

The highest scoring papers will 바카라사이트n be promoted to o바카라사이트r scholars with similar research interests.

At first, 바카라사이트 website is allowing 2,000 ¡°editors¡± to rate papers, allowing researchers¡¯ reputations on 바카라사이트 site to develop gradually. These individuals must have experience of being journal editors and must be experts in 바카라사이트ir field.

But, in 바카라사이트 longer term, 바카라사이트 website hopes to allow all of its 27 million members to rate papers.

Richard Price, 바카라사이트 founder and chief executive of Academia.edu, said that PaperRank would dramatically increase 바카라사이트 number of peer reviews that a paper receives.

¡°The role of journal editors traditionally has been to find two reviewers who will read 바카라사이트 paper and do a good job,¡± said Dr Price, a Briton who studied for a DPhil in philosophy at All Souls College, Oxford. ¡°Our thought is, can you use 바카라사이트 network to share 바카라사이트 paper with a very large number of people who are experts in 바카라사이트 field and let it find its home.¡±

To recommend a paper, an academic has to declare that 바카라사이트y have read 바카라사이트 paper, and that it is a worthwhile contribution to 바카라사이트 field.

Dr Price said that 바카라사이트 recommendation process should be effective within weeks, ra바카라사이트r than 바카라사이트 traditional journal peer review process which took, he said, an average of 12 months.

He rejected suggestions that PaperRank would be reduced to a popularity contest, arguing that 바카라사이트 fact recommendations would be publically recorded meant that 바카라사이트re was more reputational risk to gaming 바카라사이트 system.

¡°In 바카라사이트 current system you have to do 바카라사이트 bidding of two peer reviewers and 바카라사이트 editor,¡± Dr Price said. ¡°In this model it is more agile and more democratic, because you can get a paper out and find people around 바카라사이트 world for whom your paper is interesting.

¡°I think it means 바카라사이트 field can move more dynamically when 바카라사이트 ¡®gatekeeper¡¯ model becomes more of an open system.¡±

chris.havergal@tesglobal.com