Publication Peer Review: An Annotated Bibliography

by Bruce W. Speck

Overview

Peer review is the sometimes controversial practice of subjecting an academic manuscript or project to critique by scholars in the same area of expertise. It is employed widely by jourbanal editors and, to a lesser extent, by book editors, and it is a major factor in the determination of foundation grants. Doubts have been raised about the efficacy and ethics of peer review, but the process has never been systematically studied. Speck has collected and carefully analyzed and annotated 780 sources published from 1960 to the present which would provide the basis for such research. A detailed classified subject index pinpoints specific issues in the author-editor-referee relationship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313288920
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/24/1993
Series:	Bibliographies and Indexes in Mass Media and Communications , #7
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

BRUCE W. SPECK is Assistant Professor of English at Memphis State University. The author of Editing: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1991), he is continuing to document the literature of editing, preparing additional bibliographies on managing the editorial process and on teaching editing. His many articles have appeared in such jourbanals as Technical Communication Quarterly, Jourbanal of Business and Technical Communication, and The Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, and his poetry has been published in Plainsongs and other periodicals.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Jourbanal Peer Review
Book Peer Review
Grant Peer Review
Author Index
Subject Index

Editorial Reviews

Peer review is the widely-employed practice of subjecting an academic manuscript or project to critique by scholars in the same area of expertise. Doubts have long been raised as to the efficacy and ethics of peer review but the process has never been systematically studied. Speck has collected, analyzed, and annotated 780 sources published from 1960 to 1991 which would provide the basis for such research. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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