The rush to publish.
The rush to publish.
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急于出版。
DOI：
10.1126/science.1898994
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发表时间：
1991
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影响因子：
56.9
通讯作者：
L. Roberts
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作者：
L. Roberts
在其他期刊上发表了17天。虽然大多数调查人员对期刊提供的更快的扭亏为盈表示赞赏，但也有一些人想知道，或许一件好事做得太过分了。他们说，从收到到发表两三个月是一回事，两三个星期是另一回事。一名坚持要求匿名的调查人员抱怨说，这是在失控。他最近在最后一刻的一次争夺战中被淘汰。冷泉港实验室的理查德·罗伯茨对此表示赞同：“我对这一趋势感到遗憾。”哈佛大学的免疫学家杰克·斯特罗明格宣称：“时尚杂志仓促出版，并不能为科学事业服务。”批评者对这份超快的出版物有几点不满。他们在期刊上谈论任人唯亲，并推测快车道只对内部人士开放，这使得除了被选中的少数人之外，任何人都很难竞争，即使不是不可能。还有一些评论家，比如施特罗明格，对编辑的权力感到恼火，他们可以根据自己的心血来潮，决定哪些报纸“足够热门”，从而有理由首先进入快车道。“重要的是品味，今天的品味可能不是明天的品味。”但最大的担忧是，至少在某些情况下，快速发表可能是过早发表；科学家在匆忙发表时可能会偷工减料，审查过程可能会受到影响，导致工作不正确或不完整。斯坦利·庞斯和马丁·弗莱施曼的冷聚变论文，由
17 DAYS coming out in one of the other journals. While most investigators applaud the faster turnaround journals are offering, some are wondering ifperhaps a good thing has gone too far. Two or 3 months from receipt to publication is one matter, they say; 2 or 3 weeks is another." This is getting out of hand," grumbles one investigator, insisting on anonymity, who was recently beaten out in one of these lastminute scrambles. Richard Roberts of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory agrees:" I deplore [the trend]." And immunologist Jack Strominger of Harvard University declares:" The vogue journals do not do the cause of science a service by rushing things into print." The critics have several gripes about this ultrafast publication. They talk ofcronyism at the journals and speculate that the fast track is available just to insiders, which makes it difficult if not impossible for any but the chosen few to compete. Still other critics, like Strominger, are galled by the power of the editors to decide, according to their whims, which papers are" hot" enough to warrant the fast track in the first place." What is important or not is taste, and taste today may not be taste tomorrow." But the biggest worry is that rapid publication may, in some cases at least, be premature publication; that in their rush to publish, scientists may cut corners and the review process may be compromised, leading to incorrect or incomplete work. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann's cold fusion paper, published by