The transparency of the peer-review  system of grant applications.

Ricardo Cartes-Velásquez;

doi:10.17126/joralres.2018.010

The transparency of the peer-review system of grant applications.

Journal Of Oral Research ◽

10.17126/joralres.2018.010 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 4-5

Author(s):

Ricardo Cartes-Velásquez ◽

Keyword(s):

Peer Review ◽

Peer Review System ◽

Review System ◽

Grant Applications

DIY peer review and monograph publishing in the arts and humanities

Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies ◽

10.1177/1354856518780456 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 24 (5) ◽

pp. 477-493 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Dorothy Butchard ◽

Simon Peter Rowberry ◽

Claire Squires

Keyword(s):

Peer Review ◽

Science And Technology Studies ◽

Peer Review System ◽

Journal Articles ◽

Review System ◽

Linear Processes ◽

Arts And Humanities ◽

The Arts ◽

Grant Applications ◽

The Social

In order to explore monograph peer review in the arts and humanities, this article introduces and discusses an applied example, examining the route to publication of Danielle Fuller and DeNel Rehberg Sedo’s Reading Beyond the Book: The Social Practices of Contemporary Literary Culture (2013). The book’s co-authors supplemented the traditional ‘blind’ peer-review system with a range of practices including the informal, DIY review of colleagues and ‘clever friends’, as well as using the feedback derived from grant applications, journal articles and book chapters. The article ‘explodes’ the book into a series of documents and non-linear processes to demonstrate the significance of the various forms of feedback to the development of Fuller and Rehberg Sedo’s monograph. The analysis reveals substantial differences between book and article peer-review processes, including an emphasis on marketing in review forms and the pressures to publish, which the co-authors navigated through the introduction of ‘clever friends’ to the review processes. These findings, drawing on science and technology studies, demonstrate how such a research methodology can identify how knowledge is constructed in the arts and humanities and potential implications for the valuation of research processes and collaborations.