In 2023, Question Everything
Here’s a New Year’s Resolution for everyone for 2023: Question everything about how we teach, do research, and select students or job applicants. – Question grades – Question…
Tag: peer review
Editorial on Editing
One of the most undervalued, but arduous forms of academic work is editing: organizing knowledge, judging quality, finding emergent themes, and forging connections. Editing is a form of…
“That Almost Finished Journal Article” a 2017 Annual Meeting Workshop Preview
We asked Annual Meeting workshop organizers to give our blog readers a sneak peek at the events they have planned for AmAnth17. This post was submitted by Jaida Samudra, the organizer…
Peer Review Boycott: Say No to Political Censorship
By: Charlene Makley and Carole McGranahan Would you peer review manuscripts for a journal or press that politically censors its content? If your answer is no, then please…
Reviewing the #Review Process
As Allegra’s reviews editor, I am not only dealing with awesome new publications every week, but also get to think and talk a lot with authors and editors…
On the responsibilities of panelists
So you can tell what’s coming here. The short version is: should panelists provide for a good show (topical, interesting, cutting edge, the presentation of new research, ideas,…
Peer Review and Academic Citizenship: A Call to Our Colleagues
Most of us who earned our degrees before the advent of email remember the thrill of being asked to write our first peer review. We both remember how…
An Interview With Reviewers 1, 2, and 3
This is the third post in a sequence called Strange Rumblings in the Meritocracy. [What follows is an edited and condensed transcript of an interview I conducted with…
Academics hate being stupid.
[look who didn’t drink his coffee this morning] Let’s begin with a pessimistic idea. People are stupid [insert ignorant, arrogant, whatever] and academics are people. And a hundred…