A Cybernetic Approach to the Procedures of Peer- Reviewing inScholarly Journals

Document Type : Research ŮŽ Article

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1 Ph.D. Student in Library and Information Science; Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz, Ahwaz Iran

2 Professor of Library and Information Science; Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz, Ahwaz Iran

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Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems. It is equally applicable to physical and social systems. Cybernetics describes the complex phenomena of the world, analyzes the relationships between a phenomenon with other phenomena of the environment then evaluates the methods of controlling them. Different sciences have taken advantages of cybernetics to explain the structure of plain and complex systems. This paper attempts to evaluate cybernetics and its elements and have a cybernetic approach to the procedures used in peer-review of the papers of scholarly journals. Simulation of peer-review with cybernetic systems indicates that this system has the main features of cybernetic systems. Adaptation of peer-review procedures in scholarly journals with cybernetic systems concerning the three elements of control, relationship and feedback can improve the functionality of these systems

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Librarianship and Information Organization Studies
Volume 21, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
September 2010
Pages 186-198

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  • Receive Date: 07 November 2009
  • Revise Date: 19 May 2015
  • Accept Date: 09 June 2010

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