On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Dana Roth <dzr...@library.caltech.edu> wrote:
> I thought it might be interesting to see the extent to which a major > society publisher values peer review: > > > > > > What’s New With *Physical Review*—Winter 2015 > > 142 Outstanding Referees Announced > > > > The editors of the APS journals have selected 142 Outstanding Referees for > 2015, out of the more than *60,000* currently active referees. > > > > The highly selective Outstanding Referee program recognizes scientists who > have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in > the APS journals. > > > > A listing of the ‘Outstanding Referees’ dating from 2008 is given at: > http://journals.aps.org/OutstandingReferees?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=winter-newsletter2015 > > > > Dana L. Roth > Caltech 1-32 > 1200 E. California Blvd. > > Pasadena, CA 91125 > 626-395-6423 fax 626-792-7540 > dzr...@library.caltech.edu > http://library.caltech.edu/collections/chemistry.htm > > And they're right. But they are physics publishers and editors, not the physics community itself. I don't know whether it's most, but *many* physicists don't think peer review is worth much, claim to be satisfied with unrefereed preprints in Arxiv, and claim that the only reason they keep publishing in peer-reviewed journals is to keep their promotion committees happy. I am pretty sure they are wrong, and have many times explained why I think they're wrong, but nevertheless, that's what many keep saying and thinking. (What they are actually *doing*, on the other hand, is *exactly* what they (and everyone else) have been doing all along, namely, submitting all their unrefereed preprints to peer-reviewed journals; they are merely supplementing this by *also* making their unrefereed preprints OA, and, once they are refereed, revised and accepted, making their refereed postprints OA too...) Calls to mind "Simon Says" or "Do as I do, not as I say I do"...: http://j.mp/SaysSimon *Stevan Harnad*
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