Peer Review
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Peer Review, Part 3: A Taxonomy of Bad Papers
Reviewing is great when you get a good paper where you can make some suggestions to make it even better, and everybody’s happy. Bad papers are much less fun, but they are also much more common. Here are some examples I’ve seen and that I keep seeing.
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Peer Review, Part 2: How It Works
Peer review is one of the central pillars of academic publishing. But how does it actually work? What is blind review, and what is it good for? This part will answer those questions, and then tell you how to be a good reviewer yourself.
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Peer Review, Part 1: Quilt Plots
What is peer review? How does it work? And is it really as flawed as people claim it is? In this little series, I will talk about all that, and then end up arguing that peer review does, in fact, work – at least in visualization. But first an example where it didn’t.