Programme
28 May 2026, 14.00-17.00, Huygens HG01.060 (first floor, central corridor)
Very Preliminary Programme
14.00 Presentation: Outsourced, Invisible Labour in Editorial and Peer Review: Who Keeps the System Running?
Amna Pottarath (ISiS)
“Traditionally sustained by a gift economy, the peer review process is increasingly challenged by rising submission volumes, reviewer fatigue, faster publication demands, and research integrity threats. In response, many editorial tasks like technical checks, reviewer selection, research integrity assessment, or peer review itself are outsourced by publishers and journals to vendor companies in countries like India. This outsourcing redistributes editorial and peer review labour reflecting cost saving strategies, while raising questions about transparency, power, labour conditions and neocolonial relations. By tracing editorial workflows through qualitative interviews and ethnographic research in outsourced vendor companies, this research aims to highlight how hidden labour underpins contemporary peer review and analyzes its implications on global knowledge evaluation.“
14.40 Presentation: [On NWO’s work on distributed peer review]
Stefan Gaillard (ISiS/NWO) and Stefan Penders (NWO)
[abstract TBA]
15.20 Presentation: [on the new project?]
Simon Lohse and Carlijn Hooijmans?
Willem Halffman 