Joel Duff often includes outstanding information literacy components to his videos. This video knocked it out of the park.
Time stamps for Joel Duff’s Video “Let’s Talk About Peer Review” aka “What’s Wrong and Right with Peer Review?”
00:00 Discussion of a retracted article in a open-source, peer-reviewed journal
16:55 Problems associated with open-source, peer-reviewed journals
24:25 Discussion of predatory journals as a business model and a degradation of the peer review process.
25:53 Red flags that indicate an article may not be trustworthy
29:13 How predatory journal editors can abuse their positions as editors; how this practice reinforces the bad reputations of these journals among serious scientists.
37:34 The purpose and peer review and a critique of the traditional system
51:40 Tweaks and alternatives to peer-review