Is Peer Review Broken?

["Sloan, Bernie" <bernies@uillinois.edu>]

"[A]cross the board, editors at top-tier journals say they are 
receiving more submissions every year, leading in many cases to 
more rejections, appeals, and complaints about the system 
overall."

McCook, Alison. Is Peer Review Broken? The Scientist, 20(2). 
February 2006.

http://www.the-scientist.com/2006/2/1/26/1/

There's also an editorial on the subject:

http://www.the-scientist.com/2006/2/1/13/1/

Bernie Sloan
Senior Information Systems Consultant
Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois
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E-mail: bernies@uillinois.edu