David Crotty comments at the Scholarly Kitchen about a new journal's decision to put scientists, instead of editors, in charge of its publication. "Is there a factual basis, a measurable qualitative difference seen in the performance of the two types of editors?" Crotty asks. "Are professional editors inferior? Or are they being used as a scapegoat for rejected authors, the scholarly equivalent of blaming the referee when one’s local sports team loses a match?"
December 30, 2011