Open is good right? In response to @KriegeskorteLab's open review of our work on neural similarity, I offer you "An open review of Niko Kriegeskorte", which is a less tedious read that touches on how difficult it is do something novel in this field.http://bradlove.org/blog/open-review …
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Replying to @ProfData @KriegeskorteLab
Disclaimer: I am trying to not be caught in any cross-fire and hope for a fair discussion. I see that open reviews can be perceived as public shaming and therefore as harmful the authors' careers (esp. ECRs). I sign my reviews, but don't make them public for this reason.
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Yet, while I have sympathies for the heat of the moment, I think we all agree that countering scientific criticism of one's work by a personal attack on the reviewer is probably not the right way forward. The post does raise interesting questions, however. One is about timing.
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You stated (here on twitter?!) that the time of publication was wrong and mainly serves self-promotion. This raises the question as to what time would have been better? Posting before the editorial decision may have been perceived as trying to bias the other reviewers.
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Another criticism is about the place of publication: a blog. Please note that while biorxiv allows for comments, not all preprint servers do. So where else would the publication of a review be better?
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A final important bit of information missing is whether the authors knew ahead of time that Niko would review and do so publicly. Was there a chance to opt out ahead of time?
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If the authors were asked before and agree in general with public reviews, then I think the time and place is appropriate. However, as stated above, we can discuss whether the open review experiment as such is helpful or harmful. Looking forward to your thoughts.
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Replying to @TimKietzmann @KriegeskorteLab
Yes, there are many open systems and they all involve consent.
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The authors weren't asked in this case.
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