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Pay Referees Per Mistake Caught?

James Stacey Taylor, a professor of philosophy at The College of New Jersey, is concerned about the problem that “scholars are not verifying the accuracy of their sources,” and offers up a solution. (more…)

A Little Rough Data About Journal Refereeing in Philosophy

Is there a refereeing crisis in philosophy? There has been a fair amount of discussion about this over the past couple of months. (more…)

Reminder to Journal Editors Re: Refereeing Data

Several journal editors have emailed me responses to my request for data regarding referee requests at their journals. If you haven’t yet, please at least provide an answer to this one question: (more…)

Call for Refereeing Data from Journal Editors

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve seen complaints from journal editors about the difficulty of finding referees and managing the refereeing process in a timely way but also some commentary suggesting that there may not be a problem. (more…)

How Editors Can Use PhilPeople to Find Referees

At least part of the “referee crisis” in philosophy comes from the fact that many philosophers are never or only rarely asked to referee. How can editors find these relatively untapped referees? (more…)

How to Fix the Referee Crisis in Professional Philosophy (guest post)

In the following guest post, Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) provides a two-step solution to the referee crisis in philosophy. (more…)

Why a Crowd-Sourced Peer-Review System Would Be Good for Philosophy (guest post)

Would “an online, crowd-sourced peer-review system” work better than traditional peer-review as a “quality control device” in philosophy? In a paper forthcoming in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, three philosophers, Marcus Arvan (Tampa), Liam Kofi Bright (LSE), and Remco Heesen (Western Australia), argue for a positive answer to this question. (m..

A Public Database of Referee Service (guest post)

A few years ago, Neil Sinhababu, associate professor of philosophy at the National University of Singapore, wrote about the “publication crisis” in academic philosophy in a post entitled “2,000 Spaces for 10,000 Papers: Why Everything Gets Rejected & Referees Are Exhausted.” In this guest post*, he follows up with a proposal for how to help make things better. (more..

Are Philosophers Using Publons?

About four years ago in a post about getting credit for refereeing articles, I mentioned Publons, a site that allows you to “track your publications, citation metrics, peer reviews, and journal editing work in a single, easy-to-maintain profile.” (more…)

Flipping the System: One Possible Solution to the Publishing Odyssey (guest post by Felix Bender)

“How could we, in other words, make the publishing system more efficient both for the authors and the journals?”

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The BJPS Referee Of The Year Award

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (BJPS) has a “Referee of the Year” award. (more…)

Refereeing Papers About Your Own Work

A graduate student in philosophy writes in with the following query:

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How to Write a Referee Report (guest post by John Greco)

The following is a guest post* by John Greco, who is currently Leonard and Elizabeth Eslick Chair in Philosophy at Saint Louis University, but will soon be taking up the McDevitt Chair in Philosophy at Georgetown University. It first appeared at The Philosopher’s Cocoon.

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Are Spam Filters Blocking Referee Requests?

A philosopher wrote in to share a lesson she learned recently. (more…)

New Site for Philosophy Journal Survey Project

The Journal Survey Project of the American Philosophical Association (APA) (previously) has been moved. (more…)

Stakeholder Refereeing for Controversial Ideas: Replies to Some Criticisms

I appreciate the responses, here and elsewhere, to my idea of using stakeholder refereeing as an alternative to the pseudonymous authorship policy planned by the Journal of Controversial Ideas. (more…)

An Objection Does Not A Rejection Make

“If philosophers are serious about improving the way their journals function, they need to consider not only how to improve the mechanics of the reviewing process, but also how to improve the way they criticize one another.”

What are good grounds for a journal referee suggesting a paper be rejected? Tim Crane (CEU) has some thoughts on that. (more…)

Should You Referee the Same Paper Twice, for Different Journals? (guest post by Eric Schwitzgebel)

The following is a guest post * by Eric Schwitzgebel, professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, and blogger at The Splintered Mind.

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Should Graduate Students Referee?

Should graduate students be called upon to serve as referees for journals? I was stunned a few years back to learn of the growing use of graduate students to serve as referees—stunned until I remembered the (arguably) over-publishing practice of our profession. But now the practice of enlisting grad-student referees—to my limited and aging eyes—appears to be g..

New Philosophy Journal Survey Project

The Blog of the APA is launching a new project to collect and share data on the experiences philosophers have had with academic journals, including information about each journal’s “average review time, time to publication, acceptance rates, comments per submission” and related qualities. (more…)

Should Journals Publicly Grade Submissions?

Jonathan Weisberg, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and managing editor of Ergo, notes that by the time a paper is published in one journal, it has likely made the rounds at a few others, and hence has been reviewed by several people whose opinions on it are not publicly available. These people have already “thought about strengths and..