Sentences with phrase «flawed editorial process»

And what you characterize as «coercing journals» may just as well -LSB-(or better) be seen as protesting a deeply flawed editorial process.

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However, it is not foolproof — a deeply flawed paper can end up being published under a number of different potential circumstances: (i) the work is submitted to a journal outside the relevant field (e.g. a paper on paleoclimate submitted to a social science journal) where the reviewers are likely to be chosen from a pool of individuals lacking the expertise to properly review the paper, (ii) too few or too unqualified a set of reviewers are chosen by the editor, (iii) the reviewers or editor (or both) have agendas, and overlook flaws that invalidate the paper's conclusions, and (iv) the journal may process and publish so many papers that individual manuscripts occasionally do not get the editorial attention they deserve.

Regarding curatorial and editorial contributions, any number of innovative structures might provide great improvements over the deeply flawed and inconsistent process of peer review and its associated processes that we currently rely on publishers to facilitate.