Peer choice - does reviewer self-selection work?

Hartley, James; Cowan, John; Rushby, Nick

Abstract

The British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) uses a novel system for obtaining referees by e-mailing the abstracts of submissions to a panel of over 250 referees and allowing these individuals to choose which papers they would like to review. An analysis of 13 experienced referees showed that, of 473 reviews assessed, these referees were slightly more lenient than the editor and that electronic records provide useful data that can be mined in interesting ways.

Citation

Hartley, J., Cowan, J., & Rushby, N. (2016). Peer choice - does reviewer self-selection work?. Learned Publishing, 29(1), 27-29. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1010

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 11, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Jan 8, 2016
• Publication Date: 2016-01
• Deposit Date: Jan 18, 2016
• Journal: Learned Publishing
• Print ISSN: 0953-1513
• Electronic ISSN: 1741-4857
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 27-29
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1010
• Keywords: Academic peer-review; journal submissions; reviewer self-selection
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9447
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/leap.1010