My assumption is that it will take many of you to do this in order for me to work my way up to $45 per month via running the peer. For instance if you click the banners at the top or bottom of this post and sign up, you will become a referral for me. One potential solution is referrals (who then have to wait God knows how long to be approved), and apparently you will earn money off of your referrals. Needless to say, I'm in no fear of feeling ripped off because I earned more than my $45 limit. Except for that week, actually 9 days, that my computer was turned off, my computer has been running quite a bit. To put this into perspective system-wise, I have a blistering processor and Comcast cable Internet access, which is pretty swift. So far for my computer's time, I've managed to earn 15 cents. Here's a screen capture of my Gomez Peer window: My second problem has to do with the small fortune I've managed to amass in my month long experiment. In any event, regardless of what I've done, I still feel there should have been a response by now.
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For another thing, my testing the ability to cleanly uninstall software may have thrown off whatever takes place as part of the Gomez Peer review process. For one thing, I did go on vacation and have my computer turned off for a week. My first problem is that I still haven't been approved or disapproved from the program despite the FAQ saying that it generally took two weeks. So far, that's about as positive as I can get with Gomez Peer, but at least it is something. I'm pleased to report that the software appears to be clean and that it can be easily removed by uninstall with no apparent lasting effects.
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I did a little research via Google and decided to give it a try, though downloading software from a money-making opportunity website is usually the equivalent of hitting your PC with a sledgehammer. The maximum amount that you can earn is $45 per month. You are not automatically approved just by downloading and running the software, and you are only processing when you are online. According to the site FAQ, Gomez Peer runs in the background of your computer, checking the performance of various websites, and pays you for your processing time.
The transparency of open peer review encourages accountability and civility, generally improving the overall quality of the review and article.
This is only the case, however, with accepted articles. Some journals may also publish the reviews together with final articles, and so readers see both the identity of the reviewers and their comments. There is a growing minority of journals using this form of peer review but popularity among reviewers is yet to be proven. The identity of the author and the reviewers are known by all participants. For individual researchers, the best way to rule out this kind of discrimination is to make sure that your article is written in the best possible English, thereby demonstrating sensitivity for the time and effort that a reviewer will expend on assessing it. A reviewer might receive too many manuscripts written in bad English from a particular country and might subconsciously develop a particular negative sensitivity to anything from that country. Discrimination based on non-scientific criteria is clearly unacceptable, but in the case of perceived discrimination on the basis of nationality it is often conflated with discrimination on the basis of bad English. There is the potential for discrimination based on gender or nationality.Knowledge of the author may overshadow the quality of the work - potentially leading to a lack of scrutiny, especially if it's the work of an author with a dazzling track record.Knowing who the author is (and their affiliation) allows the reviewer to use their knowledge of the author's previous research.The anonymity allows the reviewer to be honest without fear of criticism from an author.This is the most common form of peer review among science journals. In this type of peer review the author does not know who the reviewers are.