TY - JOUR
T1 - Group-based journal review
T2 - opportunities for researcher development and enjoyment
AU - Heinrich, Eva
AU - Hill, Geof
AU - Kelder, Jo Anne
AU - Picard, Michelle
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - The availability of expert reviewers, essential for academic publishing, is increasingly under threat, due to workload pressures and lack of development pathways. This inquiry, undertaken by the editors of an emergent higher education journal, draws on reviewers’ experiences as articulated in ‘reviewer stories’ and examines key questions around reviewer experiences and development pathways as well as the role of reviewing in the development of research skills and academic identity formation. This article shines a light on the elusive practice of journal reviewing and confirms group-based review as a successful approach for supporting researcher development and bringing enjoyment into academic practice.
AB - The availability of expert reviewers, essential for academic publishing, is increasingly under threat, due to workload pressures and lack of development pathways. This inquiry, undertaken by the editors of an emergent higher education journal, draws on reviewers’ experiences as articulated in ‘reviewer stories’ and examines key questions around reviewer experiences and development pathways as well as the role of reviewing in the development of research skills and academic identity formation. This article shines a light on the elusive practice of journal reviewing and confirms group-based review as a successful approach for supporting researcher development and bringing enjoyment into academic practice.
KW - Academic identity formation
KW - group-based peer review
KW - journal reviewing
KW - researcher development
KW - scholarship of teaching and learning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85184733618&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1360144X.2024.2312524
DO - 10.1080/1360144X.2024.2312524
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85184733618
SN - 1360-144X
VL - 30
SP - 232
EP - 247
JO - International Journal for Academic Development
JF - International Journal for Academic Development
IS - 2
ER -