By: Lawrence B. Conyers
There Is A Coming Crisis In Peer Reviewed Publications In Our Field
There is a coming crisis with peer reviewed publications in our field. The symptoms have been apparent for about 6 or 7 years and are now becoming obvious. Those of us who came from the academic realm have always relied on well-established publications to “show our worth” and achievements necessary for promotion and tenure decisions.…
One response to “There Is A Coming Crisis In Peer Reviewed Publications In Our Field”
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Hi everyone. Larry here. I am writing this comment in the hope that I can get others to make comments after looking at this, and other articles here. So far there has been limited numbers of people who feel like they want or can comment. I know subscribers have been reading the articles, as I can track the downloads (not actual reads) and there have been more than 80 on the Laetoli article, and in the 20s or 30s for the other articles. I am not sure why there is a lack of comments. Perhaps people are just more familiar with doing “thumbs up” or “likes” on social media? Will you please make even a short comment about the articles after you have read them? And perhaps we can get a different kind of a discussion going, which is different than with most articles that I or you have published, which just go into a “black hole”. Thanks.
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