Seminars and Panels
Panel on Peer-Review Issues
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Oct 11, 2012 |
Event Description
This is a panel discussion on issues of peer review in journals and funding agencies. The University of Houston’s (UH) Division of Research and the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the "Experiencing Ethics" grant are sponsoring this event.
The event will last about two hours. It will open with a 5-minute position statement from each member of the panel (who s/he is, her/his function, and her/his experience regarding the topic at hand). Then, there will be a Q&A session with questions coming 50% from the moderator (Ioannis Pavlidis) and 50% from the audience. The questions will be focusing on three issues:
(a) Informational: The inner workings of the reviewing system in the various funding agencies and journals. |
Panel Composition
1. Professor Bruce Wheeler
2. Professor Steven Reader
3. Professor Jeff Rogers
4. Professor Rada Mihalcea |
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Audience Feedback |
n = 34 |
Selective Comments
"Very knoledgeable panel, answered many of my questions"
"Thanks a lot for providing such an amazing event to the public. I wish I could attend upcoming seminars."
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