Peer review in an Era of Evaluation Understanding the Practice of Gatekeeping in Academia

• Autres auteurs: Forsberg, Eva (Éditeur intellectuel), Geschwind, Lars (Éditeur intellectuel), Levander, Sara (Éditeur intellectuel), Wermke, Wieland (Éditeur intellectuel)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Springer Nature 2022
• Sujets: Higher & further education, tertiary education; Examinations & assessment; Study & learning skills: general; Evaluative Culture; REF; peer review; scientific communication; scientific quality; research excellence; research assessment; higher education; research quality; Open Access
• Accès en ligne: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Résumé

This open access volume explores peer review in the scientific community and academia. While peer review is as old as modern science itself, recent changes in the evaluation culture of higher education systems have increased the use of peer review, and its purposes, forms and functions have become more diversified. This book put together a comprehensive set of conceptual and empirical contributions on various peer review practices with relevance for the scientific community and higher education institutions worldwide. Consisting of three parts, the editors and contributors examine the history, problems and developments of peer review, as well as the specificities of various peer review practices. In doing so, this book gives an overview on and examine peer review , and asks how it can move forward. This is an open access book.

Description matérielle

1 electronic resource (402 p.)

ISBN

978-3-030-75263-7
9783030752637

Accès

Open Access