Disconnecting the evaluation of scientific results from their diffusion

Abstract

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On the Dearth of Retractions in Social Work: A Preliminary Analysis of Ten Leading Journals

“…Traditionally, editors and peer reviewers support journals by serving as a form of quality control or "gatekeeping" (Altman, 2006;Crane, 1967). Though recent developments in scholarly publishing have enabled the partial or even complete decoupling of peer review from this gatekeeping role (sometimes referred to as "journal-independent" or "journal agnostic" peer review; e.g., Eisen et al, 2022;Hamelin et al, 2022;Lumb 2023), social work journals still largely adhere to a traditional model of double-blind, pre-publication peer review (Caputo, 2019). While the published literature is in some ways validated by this model, the underlying processes are largely unstandardized and opaque, and its overall functioning is poorly understood (see Dunleavy, 2022b;Tennant & Ross-Hellauer, 2019).…”