Is Peer Review Broken?

Is Peer Review Broken?

Join a panel of journal editors, journalists and academics for a lively debate about peer-review and its flaws.     Is peer-review broken? Should peer-review be double-blind? Is open peer-review the way forward?  Panelists: Tom Reller - Vice President and Head of Global Relations at Elsevier  Richard Van Noorden - Senior Reporter at Nature Tiago Villanueva - Editorial Registrar at the BMJ Maria Kowalczuk - Deputy Biology Editor at BioMed Central Peter Ayton - Associate Dean of Research at City University Nikolaus Kriegeskorte - Principal Investigator at the Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.  Chair:  Connie St Louis - Director, City University Science Journalism MA and award winning journalist.