Peer review is academic citizenship

Academic work has a rapidly increasing half-life while the half-life of academics is becoming a serious problem. As the Editor of Visual Anthropology, a very active retiree, recently wrote to the editorial board, on which I serve:Dear Colleagues, … Universities are expecting people to perform or per...

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Published inSouth African Journal of Science Vol. 116; no. 9-10; pp. 10 - 11
Main Author Tomaselli, Keyan G.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Pretoria Academy of Science for South Africa (ASSAf) 01.09.2020
Academy of Science of South Africa
Subjects
Catastrophic failure analysis
Citizenship
Colonization
COVID-19
Editors
Intellectual property
Para authors
Peer review
peer reviewing
Performance management
Public benefit
Recognition
Reer reviewing
Science
South Africa
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Summary:Academic work has a rapidly increasing half-life while the half-life of academics is becoming a serious problem. As the Editor of Visual Anthropology, a very active retiree, recently wrote to the editorial board, on which I serve:Dear Colleagues, … Universities are expecting people to perform or perish … What it means for reviewing is that you Editors might get your best results by pursuing senior or retired experts who are no longer concerned with chalking up points; alternatively, you may have some luck with graduate students, who also may be very up to date on the literatures.
ISSN:0038-2353
1996-7489
DOI:10.17159/sajs.2020/8728