Center Recommends New Approaches to Peer Review and Tenure

Center Recommends New Approaches to Peer Review and Tenure: "

The Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California at Berkeley has released “Peer Review in Academic Promotion and Publishing: Its Meaning, Locus, and Future,” a detailed report that suggests—among other things—that tenure and promotion committees ignore the venue in which an article is published and instead focus on its content, and resist rewarding the thin slicing of research results to achieve more publications.

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