Re: SAGE rolls out rewards program for all journal reviewers

[David Prosser <david.prosser@rluk.ac.uk>]

Anthony Watkinson wrote:

As far as openness is concerned some journals do explain how they 
do peer review in some detail and others do not. Again it depends 
usually on what the editors want or will allow publishers to 
disclose.

--> Are there really Editors out there who forbid publishers from 
describing the peer review process?  There can't be many 
industries in which the owners of a product are not allow to tell 
customers how that product is made.

Perhaps there should be an additional demand for openness.  This 
time from subscribers - shouldn't customers have a right to know 
the quality of what they are buying, what standards the product 
has met?

David