Peer Review: Readers in the Making of Scholarly Knowledge

David Pontille (1) , Didier Torny (1)

1 CSI i3 - Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation i3

Driven by a constant process of specialization, the extension of judging instances to readers may appear as a reallocation of expertise, ewpowering ing a growing number of people in the name of distributed knowledge.In an ongoing context of revelations of massive scientific fraud, which often implicates editorial processes and journals themselves, the derelic- tion inherent to judging instances prior to publication has transformed the mass of readers into a vital resource for unearthing error and fraud. Thus, peerdom shall be reshaped, as lay readers have now full access to a large part of the scientific literature and have become valued audiences as quantified end users of published articles

Keywords: peer review; post-publication peer review; bibliometrics; retraction; scholarly dissemination; fraud

Domains: History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences; Sociology

David Pontille, Didier Torny. Peer Review: Readers in the Making of Scholarly Knowledge. Martin Paul Eve; Jonathan Gray. Reassembling Scholarly Communications Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access OA, MIT Press, 2020, 9780262363723. ⟨10.7551/mitpress/11885.003.0013⟩. ⟨hal-02972143⟩