Name
The Pitfalls of Homogeneous Peer Review: Experiences of Scholars from Marginalized Identities
Date & Time
Wednesday, July 17, 2024, 2:15 PM - 4:30 PM
IDEAL Locations
Chestnut E
Session Type
Workshop
Description

This workshop builds upon the presenters' forthcoming racial, ethnic, and gendered biases in peer review research by transforming our findings into applicable practice. Our study finds contributors, peer reviewers, and editors sometimes need more tools to identify harmful language in feedback in the peer review process. This can lead to negative experiences navigating the scholarly publishing process, especially for excluded populations like Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), womxn, non-binary, LGBTQIA+, and disabled. The topics will include identifying harmful language in peer review feedback, responding to reviewers and editors, and tools for advocacy in the peer review process. Participants will practice strategies and language to respond to reviewer feedback with example prompts from the facilitators’ research and participants’ own examples. Participants can better advocate for themselves as an author or for others as a reviewer or editor in instances of perceived or experienced bias.

Track
Centering Marginalized Experiences
Keywords
Peer review, DEIA, reviewer feedback, scholarly publishing