Refereeing of Scholarly Works for Primary Publishing.

Abstract

The author opens her chapter by defining the territory. Refereeing is the term used to describe the process by which aan independant expert assist a journal editor evaluate the acceptability of materials sublitted for publication. She distinguishes refereeing from peer review because peer review is also used for othert types of evalaution, such as for proposal review. Referreing has been a central feature of scholarship in the UNited States in the last generation. She discusses the history, purposed and criticisl of referrin as well as th emore technical aspects, thati include standardsn rejection rates, interrater reliability, the editors zand the authors and asks whether in the loing run th eright article get published. In each of the sections she describes the main lines of research and identifies important publications