Purpose

This viewpoint article looks at several approaches to peer review that become detrimental to the scholarly process and disadvantage diverse voices in the scholarly conversation.

Design/methodology/approach

As a viewpoint article, the piece relies on published research and the author's personal experience as an author and a journal editor.

Findings

The article focuses on the manuscript structure; manuscript length expectations; and several immediately obvious effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the scholarly communication process.

Originality/value

The article addresses the aforementioned aspects of peer review with a goal of contemplating their cumulative impact on the state of diversity in scholarly communication and suggests possible ways of rethinking the situation.

中文翻译：

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社会变革时期同行评议的观点反思

目的

这篇观点文章着眼于同行评审的几种方法，这些方法对学术过程有害，并且不利于学术对话中的不同声音。

设计/方法/方法

作为一篇观点文章，这篇文章依赖于已发表的研究以及作者作为作者和期刊编辑的个人经验。

发现

文章侧重于稿件结构；稿件长度预期；以及 COVID-19 大流行对学术交流过程的几个直接明显的影响。

原创性/价值

本文讨论了同行评审的上述方面，目的是考虑它们对学术交流多样性状态的累积影响，并提出重新思考这种情况的可能方法。