Structural Transformations of the Sciences and the End of Peer Review

摘要: THREE great structural transformations are now taking place in the sciences. The structures conditions, building plan, institutional relationships that underlie and shape way sciences done today. Transformations affect radically yet systematically—in ways preserve many of original elements while creating a set fundamentally different. Structural probably impossible to resist. Their consequences hard predict. first most familiar we can think as internal research publishing: it comprises declining standards growing, built-in tendency toward corruption peer-review refereeing processes. other two describe external peer review sensu stricto : they transition from exponential growth steady state, appearance development electronic publishing collaboration more generally. three overlap interact.