I read this interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education titled “Academic Social Network Hopes to Change the Culture of Peer Review” . The article focuses on creating a peer review network for journals, to be released soon to the public. Its aim is to replicate what already happens at conferences (reviewing scholarly journals), but this will allow more timely feedback, less time spend on traveling and a larger audience that can provide feedback to the authors.
Although there are many critics of this system, I believe that it’s a new and innovative way of connecting young scholars to others. Additionally, not everyone can afford to go to conferences (monetarily and time restrictions), so this allows for cheaper, quicker feedback.
Do you buy into Academia.edu’s peer review culture shift ?
September 28, 2015 @ 11:16 pm
Ayesha, I like this idea a lot. We need a similar system with peer review journal papers. Current journal submission time is way too long that by the time it is published, the material would be outdated. I believe that with the open access we have in today’s world, many of the traditional concepts in exchanging knowledge, research, and teaching need to be revisited and updated.