Chong, Sin-Wang;
Bergdahl, Nina;
Bond, Melissa;
Wong, Amy;
Cen, Jiayi;
Givans, Nysha;
Godfrey, Caroline;
... Zhang, Shishi; + view all
(2025)
The Inside Out of Journal Editing and Peer Review: A Collective Reflection on Review of Education’s Mentoring Scheme for Early Career Researchers.
Review of Education
, 13
(3)
, Article e70121. 10.1002/rev3.70121.
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Abstract
Academic journals have an ethical obligation to equip and support the next generation of researchers to be active members of academia, including in journal peer review. Although the peer review system is regarded by some as ‘broken’, peer review remains a crucial mechanism for gatekeeping and researcher development. As a group of established and emerging educational researchers, we have benefited from constructive feedback and criticisms from journal editors and peer reviewers. At the same time, we acknowledge that peer review has been one of the sources of frustration for many researchers due to delays, unfavourable outcomes and unhelpful feedback. In this piece, we reflect collectively on our recent experience leading and participating in a mentoring scheme on journal editing and peer review for early career researchers. Our reflections shed light on some hidden aspects of journal editing and peer review, including constraints and challenges faced by editors and peer reviewers. In addition to emphasising the need to empower early career researchers to participate fully in journal peer review through intentional, hands‐on and sustained support, we advocate for a compassion‐based approach to journal editing and peer review that values empathy, mutual respect and a focus on researchers' emotional well‐being.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Inside Out of Journal Editing and Peer Review: A Collective Reflection on Review of Education’s Mentoring Scheme for Early Career Researchers |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/rev3.70121 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.70121 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Review of Education published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Educational Research Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Early career researchers, journal editing, journal peer review, researcher development |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10217516 |
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