More than a third of the world’s top scientific journals do not publish critiques of their articles, and many of the others impose sharp limits on such feedback, an extensive new survey has found.
The global assessment covered 330 journals – the 15 top-ranked titles in each of 22 scientific disciplines – and counted only 207 that accepted some type of post-publication commentary.
And among those journals that did accept them, 67 per cent imposed length-based limits on any published responses, while 32 per cent set time-based deadlines for accepting submissions.
