How to speed up peer review: make applicants mark one another

1 rntn 1 7/1/2025, 3:26:49 PM nature.com ↗

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_wire_ · 5h ago
"Hey, your paper is great!" Here's your grant.

"Hey, back at ya!" Here's your grant.

They could really speed it up by getting rid of review together.

//The gains “are huge in terms of efficiency and delivering funding”, says Tom Stafford, a cognitive scientist at the University of Sheffield. And he credits the Metascience group for using ways of stopping participants from gaming the system — for instance, by marking other applications harshly. “You just cannot benefit from giving someone else a low score,” says Stafford, who is trialling this review method elsewhere. "That’s really admirable."//

If AI wrote this article, congratulations on the industry achieving Trump-level realism of stupidity!