Review Panel
Peer Review Process
The following is to inform about the peer review procedure for the
2005 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global
Environmental Change “International Organisations and Global
Environmental Governance”. We publish this information to increase
transparency in the selection process for the series of Berlin
Conferences.
- For the 2005 Berlin Conference, 230 abstracts have been submitted on time. The submissions have been fairly balanced across continents.
- All abstracts have been fully anonymised and submitted to independent peer review by a panel of 32 international experts in the field of international organisations and global environmental governance.
- Members of the review panel were requested to evaluate the scientific quality and novelty of the abstract as well as its fit to the theme of the 2005 Berlin Conference as outlined in the call for papers.
- The size of the review panel allowed for each abstract to be reviewed by 3-4 experts. Abstracts have been alloted to reviewers on a random basis.
- The reviewers have ranked all abstracts on a scale of 1-5. On this basis, we have calculated average grades for each abstract.
- Papers with a ranking of 3.0 or higher have been invited for presentation at the 2005 Berlin Conference. These were 128 paper proposals, slightly more than the “target” number of presentations at the Berlin Conferences (around 100 papers per event).
The review process has been co-ordinated by Philipp Pattberg and
Fariborz Zelli, both research fellows with the Global Governance
Project, with support of Anna Schreyoegg, the manager of the 2005
Berlin Conference.
The 32 members of the international review panel included:
| Name | Affiliation |
| Alcock, Frank | New College of Florida at Sarasota, USA |
| Andresen, Steinar | University of Oslo, Norway |
| Arts, Bas | Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| Biermann, Frank | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Carius, Alexander | Adelphi Research Institute, Berlin, Germany |
| Desai, Bharat | Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| Elliott, Lorraine | University of Warwick, UK |
| Falkner, Robert | London School of Economics and Political Science, UK |
| Feindt, Peter | Universität Hamburg, Germany |
| Gehring, Thomas | Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany |
| Gerlak, Andrea | Columbia University, New York, USA |
| Goldman, Michael | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA |
| Gupta, Aarti | Wageningen University, Netherlands |
| Gutner, Tamar | American University, Washington DC, USA |
| Jacob, Klaus | Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| Joachim, Jutta | Universität Hannover, Germany |
| Jörgens, Helge | Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| Kirton, John | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Leiteritz, Ralf | London School of Economics and Political Science, UK |
| Levy, David | University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA |
| Mitchell, Ronald B. | University of Oregon at Eugene, USA |
| Najam, Adil | Tufts University, Boston, USA |
| Oberthür, Sebastian | Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany |
| Peritore, N. Patrick | University of Missouri at Columbia, USA |
| Rosendal, G. Kristin | Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Lysaker, Norway |
| Schreurs, Miranda | University of Maryland at College Park, USA |
| Siebenhüner, Bernd | Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany |
| Skjaerseth, Jon B. | Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Lysaker, Norway |
| van der Grijp, Nicolien | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| VanDeveer, Stacy | University of New Hampshire at Durham, USA |
| Weaver, Catherine | University of Kansas at Lawrence, USA |
| Wettestad, Jørgen | Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Lysaker, Norway |