The Methodological Problem in the Evaluation of Scientific Publication: What it Means to «Evaluate» a Scientific Essay

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE
Author/s Ivo Colozzi
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/100
Language Italian Pages 11 P. 111-121 File size 627 KB
DOI 10.3280/SR2013-100011
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The paper proposes first a «guide» to the practice of refereeing, presenting some prominent examples of «how» are evaluated the products submitted for publication in journals. The examples allow understanding what are the procedures used and the profiles on which assessment is required (originality, structure, data correctness, accuracy of references, etc.). Are then presented some of the most significant problems that the vast literature on peer review has highlighted, in particular: how effective it is, that is able to detect misconduct (falsification of data, plagiarism, etc.), how much is fair, that is able to avoid the creation of systematic discrimination against certain groups of researchers or nonconventional shapes and innovative research, how efficient, ie not responsible for slowing the spread of new research and overloading the best researchers.

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Ivo Colozzi, Il problema metodologico del referaggio: cosa vuol dire «valutare» un saggio in "SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE " 100/2013, pp 111-121, DOI: 10.3280/SR2013-100011