[Irtalk] Impact of Social Sciences – Crowd-Sourced Peer Review: Substitute or supplement for the current outdated system?

[Hilton Gibson]

The problem with peer review today is that there is so much research being
produced that there are not enough experts with enough time to peer-review
it all. As we look to address this problem, issues of standards and
hierarchy remain unsolved. Stevan Harnad wonders whether crowd-sourced peer
review could match, exceed, or come close to the benchmark of the current
system. He predicts crowdsourcing will indeed be able to provide a
supplement to the classical system, hopefully improving efficiency and
accuracy, but not a substitute for it.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/08/21/crowd-sourced-peer-review-substitute-or-supplement/
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