Publication Peer Review - (Bibliographies and Indexes in Mass Media and Communications) Annotated by Bruce W Speck (Hardcover)

About the Book

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 journal 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.

Book Synopsis

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 journal 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.

Review Quotes

?In light of the growing pressure in academic to "publish or perish," Speck's offering is significant. Of interest to editors, publishers, and academicians involved with tenure decisions, and all those who seek to publish ir secure funding.?-Choice, October 1993

"In light of the growing pressure in academic to "publish or perish," Speck's offering is significant. Of interest to editors, publishers, and academicians involved with tenure decisions, and all those who seek to publish ir secure funding."-Choice, October 1993

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 journals as Technical Communication Quarterly, Journal 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.