Editors threaten to resign over ‘no-reject’ model that others see as the future of research journals.
instituted for all papers last October, with the addition that editors would also append a short summary assessment of the paper — giving readers a quick idea of its quality and significance. “This puts power back in the hands of the authors, who can then publish what they have, instead of having to do ever more experiments to satisfy reviewers,” says Eisen.
Editors also argued that removing rejection-after-review meant more pressure on the gatekeeping step that remains in’s system — the triage point where editors choose whether to send out a paper for review. That step had been “opaque and subject to errors in judgment”, their letter stated, an issue that would become more consequential if later negative reviews could no longer lead to rejection.
One researcher who signed all three letters is neuroscientist Gary Westbrook at the Vollum Institute at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. He is a vocal critic of what he sees as the monopoly that commercial journals have in science publishing, and says he signed “because I didn’t think the new policy was realistic”. Far from helpingas a non-profit, high-quality alternative, he says, he thinks the model will diminish its impact.
That view is shared by Maria Leptin, president of the European Research Council. “If I want to learn about a new field that is not core to my own, then I want a trustworthy source that filters for general interest,” she says. “The triage stage shouldn’t be seen as this kind of filter, says Eisen. “People are used to operating in a world where appearance in a journal tells you about the quality, audience or import of a study. This is precisely what we are trying to change,” he says.
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