Scholarly publishing depends on peer reviewers

The peer-review crisis is posing a risk to the scholarly peer-reviewed journal system. Journals have to ask many potential peer reviewers to obtain a minimum acceptable number of peers accepting reviewing a manuscript. Several solutions have been suggested to overcome this shortage. From reimbursing for the job, to eliminating pre-publication reviews, one cannot predict which is more dangerous for the future of scholarly publishing. And, why not acknowledging their contribution to the final version of the article published? PubMed created two categories of contributors: authors [AU] and collaborators [IR]. Why not a third category for the peer-reviewer?Scopu

Estados patologicos de la dopamina

Centro de Informacion y Documentacion Cientifica (CINDOC). C/Joaquin Costa, 22. 28002 Madrid. SPAIN / CINDOC - Centro de Informaciòn y Documentaciòn CientìficaSIGLEFundacion Cerebro y Mente, Madrid (Spain)ESSpai

The allocation of value for jointly provided services

Caller I.D. service, whereby the telephone number of the calling party is visually displayed to the called party during ringing, is now available in some areas of the U.S., but it is restricted to calls within a local calling area, and for which the calling and called party are customers of the same local telephone company. If Caller I.D. service is extended nationwide, identification of a long-distance call will, in a typical case, require the participation of three companies: the local exchange carrier originating the call, the long-distance carrier, and the local exchange carrier terminating the call. How shall the revenues from the service be divided among the participating firms? We apply cooperative game theory to address this question