{"id":332,"date":"2025-11-30T15:38:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/economics.stir.ac.uk\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=332"},"modified":"2025-11-30T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:39:08","slug":"research-seminar-michael-watts-university-of-stirling-2","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/economics.stir.ac.uk\/?tribe_events=research-seminar-michael-watts-university-of-stirling-2","title":{"rendered":"Research Seminar &#8211; David Comeford (University of Stirling)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Title<\/b>:\u00a0The Timeliness and Quality of Scientific Peer Review: Why it matters, what we know, some new results and future directions<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Abstract:\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div id=\"x_x_x_Signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Scientific publishing is unique in the marketplace of ideas. It promotes what is true and meaningful over what is popular or profitable. Peer review is key. But peer review is slow, noisy and already buckling under the strain of AI-generated\u00a0<a id=\"OWAd406ff65-a8a5-9946-31c7-1ff24e67e163\" class=\"x_x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/philosophynow.org\/issues\/53\/On_Bullshit_by_Harry_Frankfurt. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fphilosophynow.org%2Fissues%2F53%2FOn_Bullshit_by_Harry_Frankfurt&amp;data=05%7C02%7Ccarl.singleton%40stir.ac.uk%7C8f5cf6ca0b1a40e6aa1908de0265236d%7C4e8d09f7cc794ccb9149a4238dd17422%7C0%7C0%7C638950830566504173%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=LnpOWViDVSZqQv5HB%2F8Ijaihrq899FrpH%2FhXJ2UZj%2BQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-linkindex=\"0\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">bullshit<\/a>. One obvious flaw with the current system of scientific peer review is that it is unincentivised. Here I present findings from the prior literature and some new findings from an Open Philantropy-funded project that investigates the role of non-monetary incentives in promoting timely and quality peer review. These findings &#8211; which demonstrate the importance of choice architecture in determining the quality of peer review &#8211; speak to a role for behavioural insights in tweaking the peer review process. I also outline some research that I will be conducting with two RAs on the project, Morgan Reed and Paola Goggi. The deliverable from this project is a field experiment with a journal and so I look forward to a lively conversation on what that might look like.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title:\u00a0The Timeliness and Quality of Scientific Peer Review: Why it matters, what we know, some new results and future directions Abstract:\u00a0 Scientific publishing is unique in the marketplace of ideas.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/economics.stir.ac.uk\/?tribe_events=research-seminar-michael-watts-university-of-stirling-2\" aria-label=\"Research Seminar - David Comeford (University of Stirling) Read full post\">Read full post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[6],"class_list":["post-332","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-research-workshop","cat_research-workshop"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/economics.stir.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/economics.stir.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/economics.stir.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economics.stir.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/economics.stir.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/economics.stir.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economics.stir.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economics.stir.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftribe_events_cat&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}