"Overly broad claims push the peer-review system past its limit. Although I am a seasoned reviewer, I find it difficult to wade through the increasing amount of data in papers, and often encounter material where I am not an expert. If this trend continues, it will be necessary to take mini-sabbaticals to review papers. Editors might successfully gather reviewers with complementary backgrounds to examine such broad papers, but they do so at the expense of having multiple experts scrutinize the same experiments. And I worry that the supplemental section, which reviewers tend to inspect less thoroughly, can be used to bury weak data."
http://www.nature.com/news/publish-houses-of-brick-not-mansions-of-straw-1.22029?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20170525&spMailingID=54132792&spUserID=MzUwNzYwMDk5OTgS1&spJobID=1164061838&spReportId=MTE2NDA2MTgzOAS2 -- David Duffy 戴大偉 (Dài Dàwěi) Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit/Makamakaʻāinana Botany University of Hawaii/*Ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi* 3190 Maile Way Honolulu Hawaii 96822 USA 1-808-956-8218
