Abstract:Peer review serves an essential role in the cultivation, validation, and dissemination of social work knowledge and scholarship. Nevertheless, the current peer review system has many limitations. It is charged as being unreliable, biased, ineffective, and unaccountable, among numerous other issues. That said, peer review is still commonly viewed as the best possible system of knowledge governance, given the relevant alternatives. In this research note, I scrutinize this assumption. Although peer review can som… Show more
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