SOS9032 ¨C Peer-reviewing and getting published in international journals

Course content

This course is a writing course in the peer-review process building on the course SV9107 - International publishing, but here we focus more on sociology and extensive practical writing exercises in the peer-review process. Each student will write several peer-reviews and response to peer-reviews of own work to practice how to give academic critique and how to respond to critique of own work,? From writing peer-reviews and responses to peer-reviews, the students will learn about the peer-review process and strategies for how to get published in international journals. From learning about peer-reviewing, the student will better critically evaluate their own work and understand what is needed to improve their manuscript.?

The course content of three main parts: 1) writing peer-reviews, 2) responding to peer-reviews and evaluation how to utilize peer-reviews to improve manuscripts, 3) improve own manuscripts. In the first part, the students will act as reviewers of two manuscripts from their fellow students as well as for their own work. In the second part, the students will, in groups, discuss how to utilize peer-reviews to improve manuscripts and write responses to the reviews. In the third part revise and improve their manuscripts based on tools and strategies discussed in the course.

Each student will bring a manuscript to the course. The manuscript will be peer-reviewed from fellow students throughout the course and the students will response to the reviews and improve their manuscript. The course is relevant for students writing both articles and a monograph.

Course leader and lecturer: Trude Lappeg?rd is a professor at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography. She holds a PhD in sociology from 2006. She has published numerous articles in international journals and is the editor-in-chief in European Journal of Population.

Lecturer:?Solveig Topstad Borgen is post-doc at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography. She holds a PhD in sociology from 2022 and has valuable experience in publishing in international journals.

Learning outcome

The students will learn how to

• Write peer-review
• Conduct and respond to formal peer-review
• Critically evaluate own work
• Make a plan to improve own work

Admission to the course

This course is exclusively for PhD candidates in Social Sciences at the University of Oslo. PhD students at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography register for the course in?StudentWeb. Interested participants outside the Department of Sociology and Human Geography shall fill out this application form.

The deadline for registration is?four weeks prior the course.?After the deadline shall all applicants receive a note about if?the application is approved.