Tag: peer review
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Illicit Use of AI by Philosophers Refereeing for Journals
In 2024, a study found that “7–17% of the sentences in the reviews [of computer science manuscripts] were written by LLMs”. It was only…
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How Much Time Do Journals Give Their Referees?
Elizabeth Hannon, deputy editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (BJPS), has a query about other philosophy journals.
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Philosophia’s Outstanding Referee Award
In 2024, Philosophia: A Global Journal of Philosophy introduced an “Outstanding Referee Award“, joining a small number of journals that single out particular referees for special…
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Reviewing an LLM-written paper (guest post)
A philosopher noticed something off about the paper he was refereeing for a journal.
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Philosophy’s Journal Problem Captured in One Number?
In the first six months of 2025, a top philosophy journal received 403 submissions. Of those, how many did it accept during that time?
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Peer Review, Intellectual Tastes, and Some Fun
Have you ever wanted to tell off the reviewers of your manuscript?
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Arguments, Conclusions, and the Policies of Religious Academic Journals
“We do not publish any work advancing views that are clearly contrary to the established teachings of the Catholic Church.”
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Nature to Include Reviewer Reports & Author Replies with Published Articles
From now on, “new submissions of manuscripts that are published as research articles in Nature will automatically include a link to the reviewers’ reports and…
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Two Recent Proposals for Fixing the Referee Crisis in Philosophy
Two philosophers have recently floated proposals for fixing the referee crisis in philosophy.
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Little Things Journals Can Change Now To Improve the Review Process
Maybe you’re among those who are hoping for drastic changes to the practices and norms of reviewing manuscripts for publication in philosophy journals.
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A Journal’s Different Standards for White Male Authors* (updated)
Suppose you’re the editor-in-chief of an academic philosophy journal that employs double-anonymized peer review. The reports on a manuscript are in, and you’re deciding…
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The Case for a Peer Review Market (guest post)
“The academic peer review system as it currently stands is frustrating and dysfunctional for many of those who participate in it.”
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Philosophy’s Digital Future (guest post)
“The crucial question for any academic system is how filtering works. Information is cheap. What we want is some way to identify the most valuable…
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The Questions a Referee Should Ask of the Paper They’re Reviewing
Concerned that referees for philosophy journals too often recommend a paper be rejected merely because they can think up objections to it, Richard Yetter…
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Philosophy Workshop Introduces New Kind of Prize (guest post)
One of the small number of speaker spots at the Northeast Normativity Workshop (NEN) is reserved for the winner of a prize that’s structured…
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Rejection Rates Should Not Be a Measure of Journal Quality (guest post)
“If philosophy relies too heavily on rejection rates as a measure for journal quality or prestige, we run the risk of further degrading the…
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Bad Reviewer Experiences
A couple of years ago, we had a discussion of “Philosophy Journal Horror Stories“. Most of the experiences shared were from the perspective of…
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What’s So Bad About “Bad” Philosophy?
In some domains, “overall quality depends on how good the worst stuff is,” while in others, “overall quality depends on how good the best stuff is, and the…
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Is Peer Review in Philosophy “Broken Beyond Reasonable Repair”?
Over at The Philosopher’s Cocoon, Helen de Cruz (SLU) laments her experiences with peer review from the perspective of an editor trying to get…