Peer review is the process by which submissions to journals and
presses are evaluated with regard to suitability for publication.
Armed with the results of numerous empirical studies, critics have
leveled a variety of harsh charges against peer review such as:
reviewers and editors are biased toward authors from prestigious
institutions, peer review is biased toward established ideas, and
it does a poor job of detecting errors and fraud. While an immense
literature has sprouted on peer review in the sciences and social
sciences, Peer Review is the first book-length, wide-ranging study
of peer review that utilizes methods and resources of contemporary
philosophy. Its six chapters cover the following topics: the
tension between peer review and the liberal notion that truth
emerges when ideas proliferate in the marketplace of ideas;
arguments for and against blind review of submissions; the alleged
conservatism of peer review; the anomalous nature of book
reviewing; the status of non-peer-reviewed publications, such as
invited articles or Internet publications, in tenure and promotion
cases; and the future of peer review in the age of the Internet.
The author has also included several key readings about peer
review.
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