Peer review in an Era of Evaluation: Understanding the Practice of Gatekeeping in Academia - Paperback

by Eva Forsberg (Editor), Lars Geschwind (Editor), Sara Levander (Editor)

PART I - PEER REVIEW: INTRODUCTION AND ITS CONTEXT1: The Scientific Community, Academia and Peer Review;Eva Forsberg, Lars Geschwind & Sara Levander
2: Hierarchies and Universal Inclusion in Scientific Communities; Rudolf Stichweh
3: Authors, peer review, and publications - a socio-historical constellation; Raf Vanderstraeten
PART II - PEER REVIEW AND THE HIGHER EDUCATION EVALUATION MACHINERY
4: Performances and Gatekeepers: Quality assurance of education and research in Dutch higher education; Don F. Westerheijden
5: The many faces of peer review; Hanne Foss Hansen
6: How gatekeepers sometimes enhance the effects of evaluation machineries in research; Peter Dahler Larsen
7: Peer review in public administration: a contradiction in terms?; Agnes Ers & Kristina Tegler Jerselius
PART III - SPECIFICITIES OF DIFFERENT PEER REVIEW PRACTICES
8: Is Peer Review Fit for Purpose?; Malcolm Tight
9: Peer advocacy - loyalties, wish lists and tough love in national peer review;Lars Geschwind
10: Many faces of scientific evaluation: use of public, professional and organizational power; Jonna Kosonen, Tea Vellamo, Taru Siekkinen & Elias Pekkola
11: Disciplinary boundary work - Peer-review and the (full) professorship; Eva Forsberg, Rita Foss Lindblad, Sara Levander & Sverker Lindblad
12: Assessing academic careers: Crafting the 'excellent' professor in biomedicine, economics and history; Björn Hammarfelt13: Peer review in academic promotion - when teaching excellence is at stake; Maja Elmgren, Eva Forsberg, Sara Levander
14: Performance-based evaluation metrics - influence at the macro, meso and micro level; Gustaf Nelhans
15: The role of peer review in the evidence making processes of systematic review; Tine S. Pr itz & Magnus Levinsson
Part IV - PEER REVIEW: A FINAL ACCOUNT
Chapter 16: Peer review, an extended, challenged and migrating institution