Post-Publication Peer Review for Real

The inefficiency of the current peer-review system has been discussed for many years, and now there is a surge of various countermeasures aiming to solve the problems. Post-publication peer review (PPPR) has emerged as one of them, and some scholars expected that it would be the definite solution. Unfortunately, a decade of trial has not turned out to be as fruitful as expected. We assessed that the biggest reason for this situation was the lack of incentives among contributors, and proposed that publishing review commentaries as independent and qualified publications in a dedicated section of a journal might solve the problem. Specifically, we took the open peer commentary section of Behavioral and Brain Sciences as a model of such an incentivised structure, and pictured a possible implementation of this idea in the current web-based environment. Potentials of this new PPPR format were suggested.