Randomisation can resolve the uncertainty at the heart of peer review
Reproduced from the LSE impact blog. Here’s their introduction:
Peer review decisions are definitive, and depending on the style of peer review practiced at a journal, reviewers can usually make one of three recommendations: accept, reject, revise and resubmit. Discussing a new study into the levels of certainty reviewers have making these choices, Adrian Barnett suggests how embracing this doubt could improve peer review processes.
Easy peer review Occasionally I find peer review easy.
