Editorial and peer-review process innovations: A report from the 2017 Peer Review Congress

For years, the gold-standard in academic publishing has been the peer-review process, and for the most part, peer-review remains a safeguard to authors publishing intentionally biased, misleading, and inaccurate information. Its purpose is to hold researchers accountable to the publishing standards of that field, including proper methodology, accurate literature reviews, etc. This presentation will establish the core tenants of peer-review, discuss if certain types of publications should be able to qualify as such, offer possible solutions, and discuss how this affects a librarian's reference interactions.

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Peer review process and editorial decision making at journals

Editage Insights ◽

10.34193/ei-a-6365 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Editage Insights

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Peer Review ◽

Review Process ◽

Peer Review Process ◽

Editorial Decision

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Judges and defendants

10.1093/oso/9780198799887.003.0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Gianfranco Pacchioni

Keyword(s):

Peer Review ◽

Review Process ◽

Social Cost ◽

Peer Review Process ◽

Scientific Journals ◽

Scientific Publications ◽

Contemporary Science ◽

The Social ◽

Pros And Cons ◽

Scientific Publishers

This chapter explores how validation of new results works in science. It also looks at the peer-review process, both pros and cons, as well as scientific communication, scientific journals, and scientific publishers. We give an assessment of the total number of existing journals with peer review. Other topics discussed include the phenomenon of open access, predatory journals and their impact on contemporary science, and the market of scientific publications. Finally, we touch on degenerative phenomena, such as the market of co-authors, bogus papers, and irrelevant and wrong studies, as well as the problem and the social cost of irreproducible results.

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Academic knowledge production and prefigurative politics

International Journal of the Sociology of Language ◽

10.1515/ijsl-2021-0002 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 (267-268) ◽

pp. 163-167

Author(s):

Beatriz P. Lorente

Keyword(s):

Peer Review ◽

Structural Characteristic ◽

Knowledge Production ◽

Review Process ◽

Peer Review Process ◽

Academic Knowledge ◽

Means And Ends ◽

Sociology Of Language ◽

Prefigurative Politics ◽

Access Model

Abstract Inequality is the pervasive structural characteristic of academic knowledge production. To dismantle this inequality, the challenge raised by prefigurative politics which is based on an ethos of congruence between means and ends must be taken up by the International Journal of the Sociology of Language. The IJSL’s peer review process, its academic conventions and its access model can potentially be spaces for concrete practices that prefigure parity in academic knowledge production.

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