Optional published refereeing

Refereeing the public health.

Between January 2009 and October 2013, 49 states and the District of Columbia passed laws focusing on mitigating the consequences of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) in organized youth sports. Using historical, contextual, and empirical methods, this Article describes the content, goals, and structure of youth sports TBI laws, while hypothesizing about their underlying legislative logic and long...

On refereeing computer science

Computer science is a diverse, exciting, and rapidly expanding discipline. Inevitably the research community pulls itself in different directions, sometimes with the result that visionary research may be under-valued. This paper explores systemic issues of general applicability with the aim of understanding and hence valuing the diversity.

Refereeing durlnq Hiqh-standard Matches

Refereeing and Peer Review. Part 2. The Research on Refereeing and Alternatives to the Present System

Continuing our discussion of refereeing, which focused on complaints about the system in Part 1,1 we now examine the empirical research on the subject, the anecdotal literature supporting the current system, and some of the suggestions for improving it. Part 3 will appear at a later date and will discuss the peer review of grant proposals. Again we will review the considerable literature of opi...

Refereeing and Peer Review. Part 1. Opinion and Conjecture on the Effectiveness of Refereeing

Peer review is so much a part of the fabric of scholarly inquiry that it is often taken for granted. I have written many essays over the years that are directly or indirectly related to peer review. These include several on authorshipl-~ and editing, ~ faculty evaluation, ~ identifying Nobel-class science through citation analysis~-~—and even a few on various aspects of refereeing itself. l~lz ...