Guest Editor

The scientific publishing process of today is inappropriate and inefficient and lacks the checks and balances required for a good scien-tific record. The power of editors to determine what goes into the scientific record and what does not is inappropriate. Editors, who typically cover a multitude of subfields, are less knowledgeable than the best scientists in each subfield. The usual reliance on peer review after an initial step of editorial review slows down the communication of scientific findings substan-tially and sometimes prevents it. According to Ray, Berkwits, and Davidoff,1 it takes 273 days from submission to publication of a manuscrip