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Walled Culture has written numerous posts about the promise and problems of
open access. An important editorial in the journal
Web Ecology raises an
issue for open access that I’ve not seen mentioned before. It concerns the
fraught issue of rebuttal articles, which offer fact-based criticism of
already-published academic papers:
Critical comments on published articles vary in importance; they can simply
point to an aspect absent from a published article or offer an alternative
interpretation or perspective. In some cases, they can point to fundamental
flaws that undermine the published conclusions. The nomenclature of these –
comments, replies, rebuttals – is variable, but their importance to
scientific progress is unquestionable.
Rebuttal articles are a vital part of the scientific publishing process, since
they help weed out mistakes made by other researchers, usually honest errors,
but sometimes not. As the
Web Ecology editorial notes, writing rebuttal
articles is hard enough because of their necessarily confrontational nature.
But anyone wanting to publish rebuttals in open access titles that are funded
through article processing charges (APCs), generally paid by the researcher’s
academic institution, has to contend with an additional problem. In this case,
as well as writing cogent explanations why published research is faulty, people
who wish to publish a rebuttal must generally pay an APC to do so."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
