Prize money helps, but you’d also need to find relevant experts who know enough about each sub-field to tell whether the standards are indeed high. (Usually they are called “judges,” but perhaps we could call them “peers?”)
It might help to narrow the question: instead of looking for “high standards” (which is vague), the prizes could be awarded based on whether papers already published elsewhere appear to use good statistics. Then you’d only need reviewers who are experts in statistics.
You don’t need to look at any paper to decide whether or not the CONSORT standards are high standards. The idea of a standard is that the standard isn’t different in every particular case.
In medical sciences peer reviewers don’t seem to be interested in doing something simple as checking whether the results that a paper reports matches the one’s that were preregistered. They do suggest various changes to papers but there’s no standard involved in those suggestions but individual opinion of what style individual reviewers like.
Letting people in the same subfield review leads to an academic climate where papers are only written to be read by other people of the same subfield. The incentives that reviewers in the present system have in the present system are bad. If you ask the average scientists about the quality of the peer review his papers get, they don’t think very highly of it.
Prize money helps, but you’d also need to find relevant experts who know enough about each sub-field to tell whether the standards are indeed high. (Usually they are called “judges,” but perhaps we could call them “peers?”)
It might help to narrow the question: instead of looking for “high standards” (which is vague), the prizes could be awarded based on whether papers already published elsewhere appear to use good statistics. Then you’d only need reviewers who are experts in statistics.
You don’t need to look at any paper to decide whether or not the CONSORT standards are high standards. The idea of a standard is that the standard isn’t different in every particular case.
In medical sciences peer reviewers don’t seem to be interested in doing something simple as checking whether the results that a paper reports matches the one’s that were preregistered. They do suggest various changes to papers but there’s no standard involved in those suggestions but individual opinion of what style individual reviewers like.
Letting people in the same subfield review leads to an academic climate where papers are only written to be read by other people of the same subfield. The incentives that reviewers in the present system have in the present system are bad. If you ask the average scientists about the quality of the peer review his papers get, they don’t think very highly of it.