Peer review: can it really work?
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This note offers some observations and suggestions regarding peer review. Some of them are intended to be constructive and serious, while others are simply meant to provoke further thought and debate. Most of the ideas discussed below are not my own but came up in conversations with other people. However, since I cannot hope to recall all these people accurately and cannot be sure that they would like to be quoted here, I will present everything on my behalf and take all the blame. Actually, some of the procedures suggested below are already being implemented here and there, but not as widely as they could be.
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