Refereeing academic articles in the information age

Hartley, James

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8535.2011.01211.x

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“…Following the United States as regard the highest number of articles is the United Kingdom with 87 articles, which also has the second highest number of cites (1640) and h-index (20). This peculiarity reveals the interest of American and English publications in USR [107,108]. The above data refer to the ranking of the most productive countries in the publication of articles on USR for the whole the period analysed, underlining its research potential, with 171 articles in the last period alone (2010-2019).…”

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Examining the Research Evolution on the Socio-Economic and Environmental Dimensions on University Social Responsibility

Meseguer-Sánchez

Abad-Segura

Ureña

et al. 2020

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Responsible higher education institutions have an impact on society and economic, environmental, and social development. These effects define the axes of the socially responsible management of the universities. The concept of university social responsibility (USR) manages these relationships to produce a positive impact on society through higher education, research, and the transfer of knowledge and technology, as well as education for sustainability. For this study, worldwide research into this subject was studied for the period 1970–2019. A bibliometric analysis of 870 articles was made, obtaining results for the scientific productivity of the journals, authors, institutions, and countries contributing to this research. The main category is business, management, and accounting. The most productive journal is the Business and Society Review, while the California Management Review is the most cited. The authors with the most articles are Stavnezer, Luo, and Lanero. The most productive institution is Wuhan University. The United States is the country with the most publications and citations, and the same country, together with the United Kingdom, make the most international contributions. Evidence shows growing worldwide interest in the economic and environmental impacts of USR. Future research should focus on analysing the links between the responsible and sustainable consumption of universities and their short-term financial, economic, and sustainable impacts.

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Section: Productivity Of Authors Institutions and Countriesmentioning

confidence: 89%

Examining the Research Evolution on the Socio-Economic and Environmental Dimensions on University Social Responsibility

Meseguer-Sánchez

Abad-Segura

Ureña

et al. 2020

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“…British Journal of Educational Technology has an unusual peer-review process as it uses 'peer choice' as its means of obtaining referees (Rushby, 2009;Hartley, 2012 andHartley &Cabanac, 2015). A panel of volunteer referees is maintained by sending regular requests for reviewers to join.…”

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Peer choice – does reviewer self‐selection work?

Hartley

Cowan

Rushby³

2016

Learned Publishing

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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.

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“…New technology allows journal editors and publishers to collect and assess more data about submissions, referees' reports and referees' recommendations than ever before (Fox & Burns, ; Hartley, ; Hartley & Cowan, ). More can now be done, for example, on the following questions (just to list a few): Do journals using different refereeing systems report similar findings (Bornmann & Daniel, )? Do journals using only two referees (as opposed to three) report similar findings (Schultz, )? Do journals offering incentives to reviewers to submit their reviews more quickly speed up reviewing times (Chetty, Saez & Sándor, )? Do the private comments of referees to the editors influence the editor's judgements (Anonymous, ; Bornmann, Weymuth & Daniel, )? Are papers reviewed “blind” (ie, with the authors anonymised) treated more harshly by reviewers and, conversely, are papers subject to “open review” treated more leniently?…”

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What can new technology tell us about the reviewing process for journal submissions in BJET?

Hartley¹,

Cabanac²

2015

Brit J Educational Tech

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New technology allows us to collect rich and voluminous data about refereeingsomething that was not possible before. In this quantitative study, we consider data about the dates of sending (1) suitable papers to BJET, (2) the papers to referees and (3) when the referees' reports are returned to the editor. To do this, we examined data from over 11 000 reports collected between 2005 (when BJET began using ScholarOne as its online editorial manager) and October 2014. We found that most of the submissions and responses were made in the earlier part of the week, with some evidence of academics (and the editor) working on Sundays. We also found modest agreement between referees on the quality of individual papers.

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Refereeing academic articles in the information age

Abstract: The new technology (such as ScholarOne) used for submitting papers to academic journals (such as this one) increases the possibilities for gathering, analysing and presenting

Cited by 6 publications

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Examining the Research Evolution on the Socio-Economic and Environmental Dimensions on University Social Responsibility

Examining the Research Evolution on the Socio-Economic and Environmental Dimensions on University Social Responsibility

Peer choice – does reviewer self‐selection work?

What can new technology tell us about the reviewing process for journal submissions in BJET?

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