PATTERNS OF EVALUATION IN SCIENCE - INSTITUTIONALISATION, STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF REFEREE SYSTEM
PATTERNS OF EVALUATION IN SCIENCE - INSTITUTIONALISATION, STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF REFEREE SYSTEM
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DOI:
10.1007/bf01553188
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发表时间:
1971-01-01
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影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
MERTON, RK
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作者:
ZUCKERMAN, H;MERTON, RK
The referee system in science involves the systemati assess the acceptability of manuscripts submitted for referee is thus an example of status-judges who are charg the quality of role-performance in a social system. T every institutional sphere. Other kinds of status-judge assessing the quality of work by students (and, as a rec change, students officially assessing the quality of perform critics in the arts, supervisors in industry and coach in sports. Status-judges are integral to any system of socia their evaluation of role-performance and their allocatio that performance. They influence the motivation to m standards of performance.In the case of scientific and scholarly journals, the sig judges are the editors and referees. Like the official scripts of books submitted to publishers, or the presum appraise proposals for research grants, the referees their judgements confidentially, these being available o and usually to the author. Other judges in science an their judgements public, as in the case of published boo often important review articles which assess the" cred work in a special field of knowledge. Although the referee system has its inefficiencies, pra see it even in its current form as crucial for the effect science. Professor JM Ziman puts the case emphaticall