What We Still Don't Know About Peer Review

摘要: Despite criticisms, the peer review process (PRP) is undoubtedly well established as an official and legitimated mechanism for evaluating controlling scientific production. Although PRP has been a prominent object of study, we argue in this article that empirical research on not addressed comprehensive way. Nine categories were applied to 150 articles topic with results revealing various gaps research: (1) dedicated evaluation system rather than actual description concrete socio-discursive practice; (2) most productive group studies considers multiple relationships between sociological attributes (socio-demographic or scientometrical) actors (authors, reviewers, editors) but does take into account texts exchanged by those actors; (3) few do analyze interchanged any variables included (such scientometrical data, agreement, rejection rates) more areas field. This lack integration among methodological approaches partial comprehension important process, which determines production dissemination part knowledge.