{"id":7270,"date":"2018-07-11T06:28:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T06:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7270"},"modified":"2018-07-11T06:28:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T06:28:19","slug":"is-peer-review-in-need-of-peer-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2018\/07\/11\/is-peer-review-in-need-of-peer-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Is peer review in need of peer review?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing about EER's triumphs the other day, reminded me that I've been getting a few emails recently from journals I've never heard of inviting me to join the Board. \u00a0This is typical:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Dear William Scott,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I hope this email finds you well.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I represent XXXXX, a highly reputable outfit strategically located in XXXXX. \u00a0We would like to cordially invite you to become an Editorial Board member of our journal, entitled XXXXX.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We have come across your recent article, \"Higher education and ESD in England: a critical commentary on recent initiatives\" published in Environmental Education Research. \u00a0With your academic achievements and your profound insights, it is my privilege to sincerely invite you to join us. \u00a0Finally, we earnestly hope that you would be interested in taking this opportunity. \u00a0We would\u00a0like to cooperate with such an excellent scholar as you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Looking forward to your favourable response.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Best regards,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Editorial Office<\/em><br \/>\n<em>XXXXX<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I'm deleting all such emails, unacknowledged, which you might think ill-mannered of me.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidently (or not), last week's <em>Economist<\/em> has a worrying article [ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/science-and-technology\/2018\/06\/23\/some-science-journals-that-claim-to-peer-review-papers-do-not-do-so\"><em>Publish and don't be damned <\/em><\/a>]\u00a0on journal blacklists operated by some libraries because of their poor policies and practices around peer review. \u00a0I recommend it. \u00a0More disturbing, perhaps, are the very real threats to people who expose such practices.<\/p>\n<p>I am not, of course, lest there be doubt in your mind, saying that XXXXX is one of those journals ...<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, you might like to look up the paper\u00a0<i>Testing Inter-hemispheric Social Priming Theory<\/i>\u00a0ostensibly written by Gerry Jay Louis, from the Institute of Interdisciplinary Political and Fecal Studies. \u00a0Go on ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing about EER's triumphs the other day, reminded me that I've been getting a few emails recently from journals I've never heard of inviting me to join the Board. \u00a0This is typical: Dear William Scott, I hope this email finds...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}