{"id":2087,"date":"2013-10-05T10:41:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T17:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2013-10-05T10:41:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T17:41:18","slug":"scorpion-stings-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2013\/10\/05\/scorpion-stings-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Scorpion Stings Itself!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/comments.sciencemag.org\/content\/10.1126\/science.342.6154.60?page=3#comment-4253\">Whos Afraid of Peer Review?<\/a>\u00a0&#8216;Science&#8217; magazine publishes a purported bit of &#8220;research&#8221; into the failings of open access journals which starts by selecting those of less repute and fails to do any comparable study of the population (of traditional subscription-based journals) against which the open access journals are being compared. This has generated a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/percolator\/critics-say-sting-on-open-access-journals-misses-larger-point\/33559\">negative reaction<\/a>, including a tongue-in-cheek <a href=\"http:\/\/svpow.com\/2013\/10\/03\/john-bohannons-peer-review-sting-against-science\/\">suggestion<\/a> that the writer who submitted to &#8216;Science&#8217; his story of a &#8220;sting&#8221; on the open access journals was actually engaged in a sting on the &#8216;Science&#8217; magazine itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0Whos Afraid of Peer Review?\u00a0&#8216;Science&#8217; magazine publishes a purported bit of &#8220;research&#8221; into the failings of open access journals which starts by selecting those of less repute and fails to do any comparable study of the population (of traditional subscription-based &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2013\/10\/05\/scorpion-stings-itself\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2088,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}