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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hirschauer, Stefan

Titel

Peer Review Verfahren auf dem Prüfstand: Zum Soziologiedefizit der Wissenschaftsevaluation Peer Review Research--Reviewed Sociological Shortcomings of Academic Evaluation 1. Einleitung 2. Der Stand der Peer Review Forschung 2.1 Experimente zum Bias von Gutachtern 2.2 Messungen der Reliabilität von Urteilen 2.3 Inhaltsanalysen von Gütekriterien 2.4 Zitationsanalysen zur Vorhersagevalidität 3. Konzeptuelle Schwächen der Forschung 3.1 Prozesse statt Personen 3.2 Meinungsbildung statt reliable Messung 3.3 Sprech-und Schreibpraxis statt Kog

Ist Teil von

• Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 2004-02, Vol.33 (1), p.62

Ort / Verlag

Stuttgart: Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Peer review research is the sphere of science studies dealing with the central mechanism of the self-evaluation of scholarly practice. This article offers a critical review of this research. It seems that peer review research is deeply involved in the self-same evaluative process which it should be observing with professional distance. The reason is a lack of sociological conceptualization of this activity. The article pleads for a theoretical reorientation from persons to social processes, from measures of reliability to acknowledgement of dissent, from cognition to speech and writing practices, and from publication counts to research in communication. Peer review is not a scientific measurement of the quality of publications, but a social institution for the calibration of reading time within a discipline.