ON CHANGING SOME ROLE RELATIONSHIPS IN THE EDITORIAL REVIEW PROCESS.

In this paper I informally analyze the editorial review process of general sociology journals and try to show how the structure of the process itself contributes to the errors made by authors, referees, and editors. The author-referee and referee-editor relationships in particular can be altered so that the quality of authors papers of referees reviews and of editors information about the quality of reviews is increased I argue that errors in the editorial review process would be fewer with a two-tier system of reviews in which authors and referees are not always anonymous. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]