Peer review is only important to slary committees -- and I would suspose
that different universities may well be more or less rigorous in their
definitioon of peer review.

Carrol

Jim Devine wrote:
> 
> if a journal allows 1 or 2, it's a scandal.
> 
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Gar Lipow<[email protected]> wrote:
> > A question about what constitutes legitimate peer review?
> >
> > As I understand it, authors often suggest peer reviewers for their
> > work. In fact this is sometimes a requirement for submissions to
> > academic presses or refereed journals. However I'm guessing the
> > following would not be legitimate.
> >
> > 1) The authors spouse is the editor (and also a co-author) and has
> > final say in selecting the peer reviewers.
> >
> > 2) The author and the author's spouse control the board of directors
> > for the publication, and the editor selecting the peer reviewers knows
> > this.
> >
> >
> > If I were to run into a case of either 1 or 2, would I be right in
> > suggesting that the peer review process was not legitimate? Or is this
> > a case where usual professional practices would allow 2?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Gar
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