I feel that we live in an era where the technology has outstriped
the process. Using paper based technology to print the journal,
there are real costs associated with printing the articles and mailing
them to subscribers. There are real an substantial costs associated
with publishing flawed articles. In networking world the cost of distribution
is essentially zero. There is no real reason why all articles should not
be published.
There is a separate issue of optimizing the readers time so they do
not waste time reading through inferior papers. This is where the
review process comes in and is quite valuable. In the future, subscribing
to a journal may really be just subscribing to a recommended reading
list. Every month the journal lists the papers that it reviewed a provides
a list of papers that it recommends that its subscribers read. Some people
may choose to read the papers that did not make the recommended list --
it is an end user decision rather than journal decsion.
In short, there is no reason why article publication and article review
have to be tied together in these days of network distribution; they are
separate and separable tasks.
Publication and Review are Separable
the process. Using paper based technology to print the journal,
there are real costs associated with printing the articles and mailing
them to subscribers. There are real an substantial costs associated
with publishing flawed articles. In networking world the cost of distribution
is essentially zero. There is no real reason why all articles should not
be published.
There is a separate issue of optimizing the readers time so they do
not waste time reading through inferior papers. This is where the
review process comes in and is quite valuable. In the future, subscribing
to a journal may really be just subscribing to a recommended reading
list. Every month the journal lists the papers that it reviewed a provides
a list of papers that it recommends that its subscribers read. Some people
may choose to read the papers that did not make the recommended list --
it is an end user decision rather than journal decsion.
In short, there is no reason why article publication and article review
have to be tied together in these days of network distribution; they are
separate and separable tasks.
-Wayne