one sentence review
Via Harriet — apparently the poets D.A. Powell and Randall Mann were sick of reading long-winded book reviews and they put together the One Sentence Review. The project was short-lived but now the one sentence reviews are all captured at Michigan Quarterly Review.
The one sentence review might be something to extend into the domain of double-blind peer review as well. OK, that’s not reasonable, though I have heard that the length of peer reviews has been an issue in the past — I have anecdotally heard of mega-20+ page reviews. Overall, review length is probably highly variable, contingent on various factors: the paper itself, reviewer, editor, journal, discipline, etc. I don’t know if length-related peer review norms have changed over time (anyone know?), but my sense (for the journals I deal with) is that two-three pages is the norm these days.
Here are some other, more serious orgtheory ideas and posts related to peer review:
- Triple blind peer review.
- Universal peer review.
- The illusion of blind peer review.
- Many other peer review-related posts here.