I agree but I would not frame this as review in terms of thumbs up/thumbs down—we can do better. In economics, for example, most people post their research in a fairly polished format online long before it makes it through the journal peer-review process. People can host their work in a variety of interesting and useful formats that actually go beyond what you can put in a frozen PDF of course.
Then we can have continuous public evaluation of this work, both crowdsourced and managed—at unjournal.org we do the latter, we pay experts to write detailed reports explaining the strengths, weaknesses, credibility, and usefulness of the research, and to give a benchmarked quantitative rating of this both overall and across a range of categories, as well as claim assessment. You can see our output at unjournal.pubpub.org and on our ratings dashboard—https://unjournal.shinyapps.io/uj-dashboard/
Authors can continue to improve the research and extend it in the same place and then seek an updated evaluation and rating .
I agree but I would not frame this as review in terms of thumbs up/thumbs down—we can do better. In economics, for example, most people post their research in a fairly polished format online long before it makes it through the journal peer-review process. People can host their work in a variety of interesting and useful formats that actually go beyond what you can put in a frozen PDF of course.
Then we can have continuous public evaluation of this work, both crowdsourced and managed—at unjournal.org we do the latter, we pay experts to write detailed reports explaining the strengths, weaknesses, credibility, and usefulness of the research, and to give a benchmarked quantitative rating of this both overall and across a range of categories, as well as claim assessment. You can see our output at unjournal.pubpub.org and on our ratings dashboard—https://unjournal.shinyapps.io/uj-dashboard/
Authors can continue to improve the research and extend it in the same place and then seek an updated evaluation and rating .