Alex Csiszar
@alexcsiszar.bsky.social
History of Science, Information, Media, Books, France, Britain
Writing: https://scholar.harvard.edu/csiszar/publications
Latest (on AI and scientific authorship): https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2024.54.5.611
Writing: https://scholar.harvard.edu/csiszar/publications
Latest (on AI and scientific authorship): https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2024.54.5.611
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Just published: our introduction to the history of peer review in the humanities! (with Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Past and Present of Peer Review in the Humanities: An Introduction - Minerva
This Introduction to the Special Issue “The Past and Present of Peer Review in the Humanities” situates the currently dominant evaluative regime of peer review within a longer and broader history of s...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Just published: our introduction to the history of peer review in the humanities! (with Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by Alex Csiszar
Four articles from our Special Issue "The Past and Present of Humanities Peer Review" in Minerva are available now. Two more articles, along with a general introduction, will follow shortly! link.springer.com/collections/...
The Past and Present of Humanities Peer Review
Peer review, i.e. the institutionalized evaluation of scholars and their outputs by others working in the same field, is fundamental to knowledge production ...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Four articles from our Special Issue "The Past and Present of Humanities Peer Review" in Minerva are available now. Two more articles, along with a general introduction, will follow shortly! link.springer.com/collections/...
Certainly -- just send an email.
September 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Certainly -- just send an email.
Thanks for the kind words. I thought this paper was quite interesting: it's great to learn more about the process by which exchange of separate copies gradually morphed into the platform that it became.
September 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Thanks for the kind words. I thought this paper was quite interesting: it's great to learn more about the process by which exchange of separate copies gradually morphed into the platform that it became.
I'm looking forward to speaking in this series on Oct 29!
September 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I'm looking forward to speaking in this series on Oct 29!
Great to see you've made it to Paris! May we follow your lead in time.
August 31, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Great to see you've made it to Paris! May we follow your lead in time.
This looks so great. I will get this now, and maybe my kiddo gets to read it too.
March 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This looks so great. I will get this now, and maybe my kiddo gets to read it too.
Yes, but the legal situation is extremely tricky -- even if the cases against these companies are winnable (they well might not be), winning might come at big cost: e.g. endangering various fair use exemptions. We should be hugely concerned about IP & GAI, but copyright probably not the way to fight
March 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Yes, but the legal situation is extremely tricky -- even if the cases against these companies are winnable (they well might not be), winning might come at big cost: e.g. endangering various fair use exemptions. We should be hugely concerned about IP & GAI, but copyright probably not the way to fight