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The peer review system no longer works to guarantee academic rigour - a different approach is needed (theconversation.com)
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[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 19 points 3 months ago

Honestly, reducing the teaching + publish-or-perish + the constant need to apply for grants would go a long way towards fixing the review process. Academics have to spend a lot of time doing a lot of non-academic work that peer reviewing properly sometimes gets pushed down the list of priorities.