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SUMMARY:Peer review\, past\, present… and future - Professor Aileen Fyfe
  FRSE\, FRHistS\, FHEA\, University of St Andrews
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CONTACT:Beverley Larner
DESCRIPTION:Research evaluation is a familiar element of modern science\, 
 and peer review is one of the favoured ways of doing it. But peer review h
 as not always been so central to academic reputations\; nor has it always 
 functioned as it now does. This lecture will draw upon my team’s researc
 h in the archives of the Royal Society of London to explore how evaluation
  has changed over the last 250 years\, to explain the present crisis and t
 o discuss options for the future.\n\nThe Royal Society has published scien
 tific journals since 1665. It was one of the first institutions to develop
  written refereeing processes\, which began to be used at the Philosophica
 l Transactions in the 1830s and later at the Proceedings and other journal
 s. The Society’s unrivalled archives shed light onhow decisions were mad
 e – and by whom\, and why – before and after the introduction of writt
 en refereeing.\n\nDuring the twentieth century\, ‘peer-reviewed publicat
 ions’ acquired a privileged status. The increasing importance assigned t
 o refereeing accompanied professionalisation and increased competition. Th
 e growth of science\, demographic changes and internationalization have al
 so posed challenges for our ongoing use of an evaluation practice that ori
 ginally developed in the context of a closed\, gentlemanly community. What
  should the future of peer review look like?
LOCATION:Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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