Comments on: Why don’t researchers like to comment on journal articles?

By: Insight Journal is interesting « Be openly accessible or be obscure

Insight Journal is interesting « Be openly accessible or be obscure — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:14:05 +0000

[...] along these lines have been less successful. See the examples mentioned by Mark Ware in: Why don’t researchers like to comment on journal articles? (putting down a marker blog, 24 August [...]

By: mrkwr

mrkwr — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:04:51 +0000

” If the work is scientifically sound, PLoS ONE will publish it — that is hardly a low standard!”

Maybe “low standard” isn’t doesn’t the give quite the right meaning, but it’s certainly a lower standard than at many other journals. The phrase I used earlier (“low barrier to publication”) is perhaps more precise?

Anyway, this was incidental to my main point, i.e. the lack of commenting despite the evident interest in PLoS ONE.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:17:33 +0000

given that authors have to pay $1250 publication charge for a journal with no impact factor and low peer review standards PLoS is generous with their fee waiver, the Impact Factor should have been retired long ago, and I disagree that PLoS ONE's peer review standards are "low". I would call them sensible: designed to weed out poor experimental design or technique without making any judgement as to "importance", a nebulous concept at best. If the work is scientifically sound, PLoS ONE will publish it -- that is hardly a low standard! (Obdisclosure: Bora's a friend of mine.)