During last week it was Peer Review Week. The theme was ”Recognition for Review”. Here on the Stockholm University Press Blog, we published interviews with scholars from different disciplines based at Stockholm University, and who shared their thoughts about peer review. Published posts on the Stockholm University Press Blog during Peer Review Week 2016 Stockholm … More Peer Review Week 2016 – A summary

As we wrote before we are celebrating Peer Review Week 2016 by focusing on the theme “recognition for review”. Our aim this Peer Review Week will be to publish interviews with scholars from different disciplines at Stockholm University. Today we publish a short interview with Nils-Lennart Johannesson, Professor at the Department of English at Stockholm … More “Personally I have always seen double-blind peer-reviewing as the way to go to ensure complete honesty from reviewers who may be faced with the need to write an unfavourable review” #peerrevw16

Blog post by Christina Lenz and Sofie Wennström. Read part 1 here. Why we do peer review the way we do The peer review process is famous (or infamous?) for taking a long of time and to include a significant effort for all involved – the authors, editors and the editorial boards alike. The purpose … More A researcher driven publisher should give recognition for review #peerrevw16 #recognizereview part 2

As we wrote before we are celebrating Peer Review Week 2016 by focusing on the theme ”recognition for review”. Our aim this Peer Review Week will be to publish interviews with scholars from different disciplines at Stockholm University. Today we publish a short interview with Peter Jansson, Professor at Department of Physical Geography, Editor-in-Chief Georg. … More ”The threat is that the core of the publishing process is invisible and never recognised at any level” #peerrevwk16

During Peer Review Week we want to contribute to the future development of an improved and quality assured peer review system. We need tools and incentives to revitalize the mission to share ideas with peers through the process of peer review and publication of results. Our aim this upcoming Peer Review Week will be to … More Stockholm University Press is celebrating Peer Review Week 2016 (#peerrevwk16)