Category Archives: Peer Review

Climate Audit Submission to EPA

Jun 23, 2009 – 3:17 PM

A couple of months ago, I posted on the EPA Endangerment Finding. In Canada, the government would just go ahead and pass the regulations without the long U.S. regulatory processes. In practical terms, some odd coalitions can form for specific policies between people who are worried about energy supply or the impact of energy imports […]

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McCullough and McKitrick on Due Diligence

Feb 18, 2009 – 3:15 PM

Bruce McCullough and Ross McKitrick today published an interesting article under the auspices of the Fraser Institute entitled Check the Numbers: The Case for Due Diligence in Policy Formation. Their abstract states: Empirical research in academic journals is often cited as the basis for public policy decisions, in part because people think that the journals […]

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Glenn McGregor: Data Archiving not required by the International Journal of Climatology

Dec 28, 2008 – 7:03 PM

After nearly 2 months and several inquiries, the editor of the International Journal of Climatology has finally said that they do not require authors to provide supporting data. Given that funding agencies rely on academic journals to ensure that authors archive data (improperly abdicating their own responsibilities), the moral of this should be that the […]

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Supplementary Information and Flaccid Peer Reviewing

Apr 11, 2008 – 11:50 AM

Based on my limited experience, it seems to me that journal peer reviewing faces an interesting challenge with the increased use of Supplementary Information (and I absolutely endorse detailed SI and obviously encourage even more detailed SI). In a very non-random of articles that I know inside-out (Team journal publications), my conclusion is that, in […]

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Willis on “Getting authors to respond to questions”

Nov 23, 2006 – 7:10 AM

[JohnA: For reasons that I don’t understand, posting comments became nearly impossible for some people for a short while. This comment from Willis I thought should be captured for future reference so I made it into a post.] Willis Eschenbach writes: Well, on the 4th of this month I posted a couple of questions on […]

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