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Is there any research/study/survey that looked at authors' willingness to receive public, online feedback (e.g. public comments on the publisher' website) on the papers they publish?

I am mostly interested in the field of computer science > machine learning / NLP / data mining, and English-speaking venues.

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    Can you list one example for "public comments on the publisher's website"? I've never seen that with any of the reputable publishers. Probably the bottleneck here is not the authors, but rather the publisher, because there would be a lot of moderation work. – DCTLib Nov 28 '14 at 05:31
  • @DCTLib Sure, e.g. PLOS. Yes I wonder where the bottleneck is. – Franck Dernoncourt Nov 28 '14 at 05:42
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    Hmmm, PLOS is not really an example for a publication venue in computer science. – DCTLib Dec 02 '14 at 11:23
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    @DCTLib: Here is another reputable publisher's relevant comment, from PeerJ. "And rather than just tack on a blog like commenting system, we've built an entirely new way to interact and provide rich, structured feedback, ask questions, and add media links to any publication." – Todd Booth Mar 16 '15 at 15:53
  • @DCTLib NIPS proceedings have public reviews http://papers.nips.cc/book/advances-in-neural-information-processing-systems-27-2014. This is one of the top tier machine learning conferences. – Sasho Nikolov May 08 '15 at 06:47
  • @SashoNikolov Very interesting! Thanks for sharing the link. The feedback in that case seems to be the official reviews of the papers. Perhaps this is included in what the OP meant, but from my understanding, the OP meant something different when he wrote "public online feedback" - that sounded like everyone can provide feedback, as the official formal reviews are not exactly "online". – DCTLib May 08 '15 at 09:17