Description
We discuss Journal Reviewer (journalreviewer.org), which is a website that provides a forum for researchers to share and rate their experiences with journal's peer review processes. We also cover how some journals negotiate the way in which their impact factors are calculated.
Links
The reference to James' mention of Dick Whittington
James’ RIOT science talk
Nichola's Raihani's tweet
https://journalreviewer.org/
The South Park Yelp episode
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Music credits
Our outro music is by Lee Rosevere
Episode citation
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2021, July 19) "136: Who peer-reviews the peer-reviewed journals?", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/5SH2Z
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