«Dede has gone far beyond any expectations of
an academic journal reviewer in terms of number of timely reviews completed, depth of understanding of the field of research exhibited, and a compassionate voice so necessary in mentoring emerging scholars as authors,» it read.
Not exact matches
Wigginton employs Twitter to cultivate and maintain a network of potential
reviewers in countries that once were poorly represented in
academic journals but, because of significant improvements in the quality of their research, are attracting fresh attention.
So hot, questions about a
reviewer's potential conflict with the author of an article promoting circumcision prompted a
journal editor to resign, and one
academic to call another a «fanatic.»
She is also a peer
reviewer for several
academic journals focused on educational change, youth development, and school - community partnerships.
This is the company, elsevier, with spectacular profit rates, whch gets its material (papers, books) which have mostly been produced at public expense (university salaries, public research grants), do very little actual editorial work (one usually has to supply papers charts etc «print ready»), get
academic reviewers to review the books and papers free of charge (well, paid for by universities or they do it in free time), depend on
journal editors whose time is paid for by (generally publicly funded) universities, then sells the
journals to the same universities, sometimes for subscription prices in the thousands of dollars.
Academic freedom does not suffer when members of the public can see the work better than the peer -
reviewers and the editors of a
journal.
In an echo of the infamous «Climategate» scandal at the University of East Anglia, one of the world's top
academic journals rejected the work of five experts after a
reviewer privately denounced it as «harmful»...
A while back I submitted an article to a foreign peer - reviewed law
journal and the anonymous peer
reviewers» resoundingly attacked not only the article, but questioned my
academic credentials.
Karen is also a
reviewer for several
academic journals.
The majority of us have a Ph.D. and hold positions as professors at
academic institutions where we teach about relationships, conduct and publish our own research findings in peer - reviewed
academic journals, write books, and serve as
reviewers or editorial board members for the major
journals in our field.