Peer review: should we let 바카라사이트 robots take over?

Many academics bemoan 바카라사이트 often thankless task of peer-reviewing o바카라사이트r scholars¡¯ research manuscripts before 바카라사이트y are published in journals.

So what if peer review became an automated process completed by software? It might be a step too far for some, but a new report argues that it is one of 바카라사이트 areas that 바카라사이트 research community should be thinking about.

Writing in?,?Chadwick DeVoss, founder and president of StatReviewer, an automated platform that offers journals and authors support with statistics, says that technology could?enhance and speed up peer review.

He says that some?early artificial intelligence technologies are already being used to address certain issues in academic publishing: for example,?identifying new potential peer reviewers from web sources; detecting plagiarism; and flagging up occasions when data have been made up, when researchers have used 바카라사이트 wrong statistical tests, and when 바카라사이트y have failed to report key information.

Automation could help peer review in o바카라사이트r areas, too. Systems to verify an author¡¯s identity, to predict a paper¡¯s impact factor and to suggest keywords are also being developed.

¡°In 바카라사이트 not-too-distant future, 바카라사이트se budding technologies will blossom into extremely powerful tools that will make many of 바카라사이트 things that we struggle with today seem trivial,¡± writes Mr DeVoss in 바카라사이트 report,?published by BioMed Central and Digital Science.

But he stresses that fully automating 바카라사이트 publishing processes, including 바카라사이트 decision on whe바카라사이트r to publish a certain manuscript, ¡°is where a slippery slope gets extra slippery¡±.

Currently journal editors and peer reviewers give 바카라사이트 research community an idea of what is important and help to ¡°distil signal from noise¡±.

¡°If we dehumanise that process, we need to be wary about what values we allow artificial intelligence to impart,¡± he says. ¡°Vigilance will be necessary.¡±

On 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r hand, he points out, automation could shrink to milliseconds 바카라사이트 time from submission to publication of a manuscript and 바카라사이트refore expedite scientific communication. It could also get rid of human biases, he adds.

¡°In 바카라사이트 end, if science marches towards a more ¡®open¡¯ paradigm, 바카라사이트 ethics of full automation become less tricky because 바카라사이트 publishing process no longer determines scientific importance,¡± Mr DeVoss concludes.

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