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Why is the blatant failure of peer review of an economics paper in that fields most prestigious journal relevant to us here where we discuss climate ? Well for one, we saw failures of peer review such as gate-keeping and favoritism on display in the Climategate episode. Remember this one from Phil Jones at the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia University ?
“ I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is ! ”
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A Rant on Peer Review
George J. Borjas, a Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Any academic who’s been through the peer review process many times ( as I have ) knows that the process is full of potholes and is sometimes subverted by unethical behavior on the part of editors and reviewers.
The reason I bring this up is because of a brewing scandal in my own discipline, economics. There has been online discussion about this for over a month, but I’ve delayed this post both because I’ve been traveling too much and because I was hoping for a resolution before I wrote anything down. But as a junior economist recently told me: “ The relative silence by senior economists regarding the editorial handling of this paper has been deafening. ” So here it goes.
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