Opening the Black Box of Peer Review
Source: huffingtonpost. Posted By: Mark W...5447 days ago
An essay excerpted from How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment (Harvard University Press)
Excellence is the holy grail of academic life. Scholars strive to produce research that will influence the direction of their field. Universities compete to improve their relative rank ings. Students seek inspiring mentors. But if excellence is ubiquitously evoked, there is little cross-disciplinary consensus about what it means and how it is achieved, especially in the world....