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Peer review is in crisis, but should be fixed, not abolished

  • Written by: Tricia Serio, Professor and Department Head in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona
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This year three Nobel Prize-winning biologists broke with tradition and published their research directly on the internet as so-called preprints. Their motivation? Saving time.

Traditionally, scientific studies are published in peer-reviewed journals, which...

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