Quality control in academic publishing: challenges in the age of cyberscience

Poiesis & Praxis - Tập 3 - Trang 181-198 - 2004
Michael Nentwich1
1Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, Austria

Tóm tắt

This article discusses the future of quality control in an academic publication system that will be largely based on electronic publishing. Information and communication technologies both challenge traditional ways and open remedies for existent problems of present gate-keeping. New forms of ex-ante and of ex-post quality control may partly replace and partly amend peer review, citation indices and quality filters based on the reputation of the publisher. Open peer review, online commenting, rating, access counts and use tracking are evaluated and put in perspective. Refuting the common argument that e-publishing leads to less quality, this paper puts forward scenarios of the future quality control system. Most likely, we shall see mixed systems, combining old and new elements, of different shapes in the different research fields.

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