From Stephen Horner, Angewandte Chemie
Lawrence Krauss’s commentary on editors and the peer review process was interesting – in particular the comment from an editor that “he would like to publish all articles, but only if the referees’ reports appeared alongside them” (30 August, p 46). We have recently done just that at the journal Angewandte Chemie: a controversial essay by Roald Hoffmann and others on predicting molecules (DOI: 10.1002/anie.200801206) was published together with the four referees’ reports. In addition, a readers’ forum was set up for further comments.
Incidentally, the same issue included a statistical report on the effectiveness of the peer review process (DOI: 10.1002/anie.200800513).
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