Peer review by committee? New journal rethinks old model

[gnabgib]

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03039-4

[rsfern]

Review by committee sounds like not very much fun, but reading the description it could actually be kind of nice to work through one’s thoughts about a paper though web chat with (anonymous) friends. One of the big slogs with the current solitary review workflow is there’s nobody to commiserate with when the article is tricky not-very-strong-but-not-flat-reject space…

Also, I’m realizing that it would be pretty nice to be able to push back on the classic Reviewer 2 behavior before the authors have to deal with it

[sideshowb]

I'm all for this sort of experiment and wish them the best with it.

Just gonna leave this line here though:

> We’ve had to cap the number of reviewers on each article at seven, because that’s what our software can handle.

Maybe I can get an article published on 4 bit arithmetic? It'll be a significant breakthrough.