From Stephen Horner,
Lawrence Krauss’s commentary on editors and the peer review process was interesting – in particular the comment from an editor that “he would like to publish all articles, but only if the referees’ reports appeared alongside them” (30 August, p 46). We have recently done just that at the journal Angewandte Chemie: a controversial essay by Roald Hoffmann and others on predicting molecules () was published together with the four referees’ reports. In addition, a was set up for further comments.
Incidentally, the same issue included a statistical report on the effectiveness of the peer review process ().
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