| Summary: | PERSPECTIVE
Formally published papers that have
been through a traditional prepublication
peer review process remain the most
important means of communicating science today. Researchers depend on them
to learn about the latest advances in their
fields and to report their own findings.
The intentions of traditional peer review
are certainly noble: to ensure methodological integrity and to comment on
potential significance of experimental
studies through examination by a panel
of objective, expert colleagues. In principle, this system enables science to move
forward on the collective confidence of
previously published work. Unfortunately,
the traditional system has inspired methods of measuring impact that are suboptimal for their intended uses.
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