This is just a quick note that Liam Kofi Bright (LSE), Remco Heesen (Western Australia), and I have a new paper, "Jury Theorems for Peer Review", forthcoming in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. The paper is open access, and defends an online, crowd-sourced model of peer-review similar to what Rottentomatoes.com does for movies, arguing that this would be a more reliable mechanism of quality control than traditional peer-review. Hope you all find it interesting!
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3 responses to “New paper in BJPS: ‘Jury Theorems for Peer Review’”
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Thank you Marcus for publishing this. Although I am not able (or willing) to understand the mathematic tools you used, I agree with some of your analyses and conclusions. The current journal-solicited approach to peer-review in philosophy is quite problematic. As you have said,”paper quality is judged by a small number of evaluators”.
In fact, a paper is judged by only 1 to 3 persons, who might be your theoretical opponents. I’ve often received reports which are less than 200 words and do not argue for their obviously wrong claims. The editors and reviewers just disagree with my papers, dare not to argue against them, but proudly misuse their little power to disparage them. I work in moral/political philosophy. -
Congrats again on the paper, Marcus. I would be happy to collaborate if you ever wanted to implement your crowd-sourced peer-review model through https://freelosophy.github.io/ !
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Exceĺlent paper,which i thought on but not put on lines
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