Quality control in scholarly publishing: A new proposal

摘要: The Internet has fostered a faster, more interactive and effective model of scholarly publishing. However, as the quantity information available is constantly increasing, its quality threatened, since traditional control mechanism peer review often not used (e.g., in online repositories preprints, by people publishing whatever they want on their Web pages). This paper describes new kind electronic journal, which standard submission-review-publication process replaced sophisticated approach, based judgments expressed readers: this way, each reader is, potentially, reviewer. New ingredients, found similar approaches, are that reader's judgment weighted basis skills reviewer, readers encouraged to express correct feedback estimates own quality. journal described both intuitive formal ways. Its effectiveness tested several laboratory experiments simulate what might happen if system were deployed used.