Peer review: how it works
1 December, 16:45-18:15.
Why feedback and peer review matter, how review works in and outside the academy, what goes wrong with it — bias, metrics, irreproducibility — and what a good review looks like. The slides give more detail, as well as references.
Key topics
- Feedback as part of writing — and how it works in other fields, from newsrooms to film studios.
- How peer review works: venues, timelines, and what reviewers are actually asked to do.
- What goes wrong: gender and affiliation bias, metrics that become targets, and the reproducibility record.
- Open, single-blind and double-blind review — what each protects, and what it costs.
Next week you review each other's drafts, so post your draft in the forum before the workshop.
And something lighter
- Shit My Reviewers Say — real review comments, collected.
- Everyone blames Reviewer 2, but on one journal's data Peterson (2020) found the culprit is Reviewer 3.