Romain Brette
This article was featured in the February 2017 issue of Brette's free journal of theoretical neuroscience (http://journal.romainbrette.fr/2017/02/04/february-2017/):The authors look at the relation…
This article was featured in the February 2017 issue of Brette's free journal of theoretical neuroscience (http://journal.romainbrette.fr/2017/02/04/february-2017/):The authors look at the relation…
In general, it is the task of the handling editor to recruit reviewers of sufficient expertise and experience in the field which the submitted manuscript deals with...
It's not clear to me what the point of this thread is.What exactly is the problem (if there is one)?
Update: the handling editor of the Kriegeskorte paper, Diana Deco was also Kriegeskorte's (who is the reviewer of the paper discussed in this thread) own former student, Jun 2010-Nov 2010: https://www.
Although less serious it reminds me of a retraction watch post http://retractionwatch.com/category/by-reason-for-retraction/self-peer-review/ : "Journals have retracted more than 100 papers in the…
In general, who knows if the reviewers of any specific paper had the necessary expertise? For instance, for cross-over studies that use techniques of one field to address questions of another field…
Stab in the dark here: is Peer4 Björn Brembs? IMO, authors shouldn't comment anonymously. Please kindly address the peer review issue
Disagree about the statement that scope is irrelevant. Especially as the number of scientific publications approximately doubles every nine year, it becomes much harder to sort out relevant from…
Here, one of this study's reviewers has indeed published a paper on a related topic in a Frontiers journal (again, outside of its scope). The handling editor was a student at that time, possibly his…
It has been peer-reviewed not only by Frontiers, but also by PLoS Biology (reviewer comments in full at link):http://bjoern.brembs.net/2013/06/everybody-already-knows-journal-rank-is-bunk/BTW, as…
Thank you Peer 3. Again, I am not judging the contents of this paper, simply because I am not a specialist. So I and everyone else are supposed to trust that it was properly peer reviewed...
A puzzling question for which only the handling editor might be able to provide an answer, as it mainly deals with his intentions. Other answers would be not more than guesses towards his intentions...
In a recent Twitter discussion, the neuroscientist Björn Brembs presented this article as a positive example for a quality paper from a Beall-listed potential predatory publisher (which Frontiers now…