Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: Insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system

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Autor(a) principal: Horta, H.
Data de Publicação: 2023
Outros Autores: Santos, J. M.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/29680
Resumo: Research productivity is a common topic in the literature, but peer reviewing for journals has received less attention, although it is a key activity of academic research. We help to fill this knowledge gap by assessing the determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals. We do so by analysing the combined information from a survey of academics working in different parts of the world and various fields of science, along with their publication and peer review information gathered from Scopus and Publons/Web of Science. We find that age, gender, and some dimensions of academics’ strategic research agendas are important predictors of peer review engagement. We also find that academic inbreeding along the educational path has a negative association with the quality of peer-review activities. However, we find no statistically significant results concerning academic inbreeding related to the professional trajectory and peer review engagement and quality. Equally importantly, our results suggest that although the activities of publishing and peer reviewing are closely associated, peer review tends to be ancillary to publishing, rather than the other way around. Furthermore, the greater the perceived availability of resources, including research funding throughout an academic’s career, the greater the focus is on publishing and the less the focus is on peer reviewing. These findings are discussed in relation to the current valuation of publication versus peer reviewing in terms of scientific and academic career recognition.
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title Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: Insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system
spellingShingle Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: Insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system
Horta, H.
Peer review–publication nexus
Strategic research agendas
Academic research
Academic inbreeding
Peer review
title_short Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: Insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system
title_full Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: Insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system
title_fullStr Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: Insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system
title_full_unstemmed Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: Insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system
title_sort Determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals: Insights for academic research and the sustainability of the peer-review system
author Horta, H.
author_facet Horta, H.
Santos, J. M.
author_role author
author2 Santos, J. M.
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Horta, H.
Santos, J. M.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Peer review–publication nexus
Strategic research agendas
Academic research
Academic inbreeding
Peer review
topic Peer review–publication nexus
Strategic research agendas
Academic research
Academic inbreeding
Peer review
description Research productivity is a common topic in the literature, but peer reviewing for journals has received less attention, although it is a key activity of academic research. We help to fill this knowledge gap by assessing the determinants of peer review engagement and quality in scientific journals. We do so by analysing the combined information from a survey of academics working in different parts of the world and various fields of science, along with their publication and peer review information gathered from Scopus and Publons/Web of Science. We find that age, gender, and some dimensions of academics’ strategic research agendas are important predictors of peer review engagement. We also find that academic inbreeding along the educational path has a negative association with the quality of peer-review activities. However, we find no statistically significant results concerning academic inbreeding related to the professional trajectory and peer review engagement and quality. Equally importantly, our results suggest that although the activities of publishing and peer reviewing are closely associated, peer review tends to be ancillary to publishing, rather than the other way around. Furthermore, the greater the perceived availability of resources, including research funding throughout an academic’s career, the greater the focus is on publishing and the less the focus is on peer reviewing. These findings are discussed in relation to the current valuation of publication versus peer reviewing in terms of scientific and academic career recognition.
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