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The Refereeing Process
In the past the refereeing process had two aims:
 | The reader of a scientific published article wanted a guarantee, that the
article has been screened by some referees. By picking the journal and knowing
its past reputation, he had a feeling by his or other's experience what level
of scrutiny to expect from the Publisher.
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| The author wanted to reach out to his readers and by getting his article
into the suitable journal got this label, his aimed at readers use as a
filter.
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| In addition the author needs the thus gained reputation for his applications
for positions, etc. The hiring committees as well used the reputation of
author's picked journals to help judging. |
Thus the peer refereeing system was basically attached to the long standing
and developed history and reputation of the scientific international journals.
Without having a better and worldwide established system to cope with these
job-related tasks as well, one has here to keep in parallel to new experimental
ways the traditional way, added by a smooth extension of the journals being
offered in parallel electronically and archived that way.
This page was last updated on
01/20/04
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