INABIS '98 - Human Reviewers: The Achilles Heel of Scientific Journals in a Digital Era

Human Reviewers: The Achilles Heel of Scientific Journals in a Digital Era
Bloom, Floyd (Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute, USA)

Contact Person: Floyd Bloom (fbloom@SCRIPPS.EDU)

Abstract

The World Wide Web and other forms of digital communication have lead some to predict the demise of printed journals. In my experience, scientific articles can be more efficiently reviewed and edited by digital document sharing. High quality print journals will remain the preferred scholarly venue for authors's best works, but only if the performance of human reviewers can be improved and appropriately rewarded.

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Bloom, Floyd; (1998). Human Reviewers: The Achilles Heel of Scientific Journals in a Digital Era . Presented at INABIS '98 - 5th Internet World Congress on Biomedical Sciences at McMaster University, Canada, Dec 7-16th. Keynote Address. Available at URL http://www.mcmaster.ca/inabis98/keynote/bloom/index.html