Archive for March, 2008
Considering Better Ways to Manage Research and Development Knowledge
You may find this article posted on the Scientific American blog regarding utilization of WIKIs and other collaborative tools for the planning and discussion of research work to be instructive. What is also interesting is the author has published the draft version of the article for open review by all readers (it is the publications [...]
Bad Advice on Peer Review of Grant Proposals
The blog Entertaining Research posted some comments on the question I posed regarding formal training for peer review. One piece posted cited work by Alan Jay Smith the Task of the Referee. I think this paper is a good reference point for discussion of peer review of proposed journal articles. However, it is not a [...]
Peer Review
This past week we’ve been following some interesting conversations on other blogs where people are talking about peer review (Medical Writing, Editing & Grantsmanship, Drug Monkey, and Entertaining Research).
While we find these discussions of review interesting (the practice of review is something we talk about all the time), the ultimate direction of these discussions is [...]