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Peer Review Power, Perils and Pitfalls
1. The Power, Perils and
Pitfalls of Peer Review in
Public
Philip Moriarty
School of Physics & Astronomy
University of Nottingham
www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/research/nano
@Moriarty2112
http://physicsfocus.org/author/philipmoriarty/
3. “Sloppy science is a larger evil
than research misconduct”
Lex Bouter, WCRI-2015
“…large underestimation of the
importance of fear”
Brian Martinson, WCRI-2015
4. Letter from Prof. Adrian
Sutton, Imperial College
London in last month’s
Physics World
24. The Dark Side of PublishingThe Dark Side of Publishing
In a nutshell: taxpayer
funds us to do research;
we publish; and
taxpayer then has to pay
exorbitant prices to read
results of research
the y’ve funded.
10 % of QR funding on
journal subscriptions
(i.e. ~ £100M per year!!)
[Publishing industry has
huge vested interest in
REF]
c.f. arXiv -- $400K per
annum; 10% of QR ~
£100M on journal subs!
See telescoper.wordpress.com and
http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/
for lots of information on Open Access
25. Elsevier and The Cost of Knowledge
Tim Gowers (Cambridge
mathematician) set up a
boycott of Elsevier.
>15,000 signed up to
this.
“Else vie r and Spring e r
as we llas a num be r o f
o the r co m m e rcial
publishe rs alle xplo it o ur
vo lunte e r labo ur to
e xtract ve ry larg e pro fits
fro m the acade m ic
co m m unity” [Profit
margins estimated at
20% - 30%]
“ Philip Campbell, editor-in-chief of Nature,
estimates his journal's internal costs at
£20,000–30,000 ($30,000–40,000) per paper”
26. RIN/CEPA: 2011 Houghton: 2009
First copy £1,261 50% Article processing £1,234 46%
Variable £581 23% Other fixed and
variable
£1,007 37%
Indirect £666 27% Management and
investment
£455 17%
Total cost £2,508 100% Total cost £2,696 100%
Profit/surplus £586 19% Profit/surplus £552 17%
Total incl.
profit/surplus
£3,095 Total incl.
profit/surplus
£3,247
What?! £20,000 per paper ?What?! £20,000 per paper ? Really ?
28. So why don’t we just publishSo why don’t we just publish
everything in Open Accesseverything in Open Access
journalsjournals (e.g. Beilstein J. Nanotech.)(e.g. Beilstein J. Nanotech.) oror
on “arXiV 2.0”?on “arXiV 2.0”?
33. Re-evaluate how we evaluate
RD Vale, Mo le cular Bio lo g y o f the Ce ll23 3285 (2012)
34. …and flaws in the literature are not an SEP
“An SEP is so m e thing we can’t se e , o r do n’t
se e , o r o ur brain do e sn’t le t us se e , be cause
we think that it’s so m e bo dy e lse ’s pro ble m … .
The brain just e dits it o ut, it’s like a blind spo t”
Publication represents the start, not the end,
of debate.