peer review and certification
Robin Panza
panzar at CLPGH.ORG
Thu Feb 19 18:28:34 CST 1998
>> So, how to enforce the certification business. Well, one way would be to
>> get the systematic societies who sponsor journals to refuse to accept papers
>> unless one of the authors was certified. This idea would spread because of
>> the perception of quality work that would be attached to such papers. In
>> other words, peer review isn't enough.
>
>Why isn't peer review enough? What are its specific failings (with
>respect to systematics/taxonomic pubs)? How would certification prevent
>those failings?
Perhaps we should discuss certifying the *journals* rather than the
taxonomists. By this I mean that the ICBN/ICZN could explicitly state which
journals will qualify for proper publication of names. This would cut out the
"self-published" and non-peer-reviewed stuff.
just a suggestion,
Robin K Panza panzar at clpgh.org
Section of Birds, Carnegie MNH
Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA
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