Overview
- Explores peer review in the scientific community and academia
- Puts together a comprehensive set of conceptual and empirical contributions
- Gives an overview on and examines peer review , and asks how it can move forward
- Open Access
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Peer Review: Introduction and Its Context
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Peer Review and the Higher Education Evaluation Machinery
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Specificities of Different Peer-Review Practices
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Eva Forsberg is Professor of Education at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research focuses education governance and evaluation, academic work and the interface between educational policy, practice and research.
Lars Geschwind is Professor in Engineering Education Policy and Management at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. His main research interests are higher education policy, institutional governance, academic leadership and academic work.
Sara Levander is Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Education at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research interests are higher education, academic work and faculty evaluation in academic recruitment and promotion.
Wieland Wermke is Associate Professor in Special Education at Stockholm University, Sweden. His research interest focuses on comparative education methodology, and teacher practice at different levels of education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Peer review in an Era of Evaluation
Book Subtitle: Understanding the Practice of Gatekeeping in Academia
Editors: Eva Forsberg, Lars Geschwind, Sara Levander, Wieland Wermke
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75263-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75262-0Published: 04 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75265-1Published: 26 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75263-7Published: 03 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 402
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Research Skills