August 4, 2008
Sociologists Discuss Ideas for Improving Peer Review
Boston
Anonymously peer-reviewing a scholarly manuscript is one of the most sacred tasks in academe—but also one of the most thankless. On Friday, at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association here, four editors led a packed audience in a conversation about how to improve the practice of peer review.
"Reviewers are at the very heart of our enterprise," said the session's organizer, Gary Alan Fine, a professor of sociology at Northwestern University and the editor of
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