The National Museum celebrated Peer Review Week from 21 โ 25 September 2020. This year the theme is โTrust in Peer Reviewโ.ย The National Museum has a number of scientist on our team that conduct peer reviews for both national and international journals. Peer Review Week takes place every year and it is a global event which celebrates the important role that peer review has in scientific quality. To commemorate the importance of peer review, the Museum will be profiling some of our reviewers to showcase their contributions to the peer review process. #COVID19 has emphasised the need for funding for research and the need for the public to have trust in research processes.
Dr Jennifer Botha
Dr Jennifer Botha is a Senior Specialist Museum Scientist in Vertebrate Palaeontology at the National Museum. Below is a list of the journals and funding agencies that Dr Botha reviews for:
Journals: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; Anatomical Record; Biological Journal of the Linnean Society; BMC Evolutionary Biology; Brazilian Journal of Palaeontology; Communications Biology; Comptes Rendus Palevol; Fossil Record; Journal of African Earth Sciences; Journal of Asian Earth Sciences; Journal of Herpetology; Journal of Paleontology; Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology; Nature Communications; Palaeontologia Africana; Palaeontologia Electronica; Palaeontology; Palaeoworld; Paleobiology; PeerJ; PloS ONE; Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology; Proceedings of the Royal Society B; Science.
Funding Agencies: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation); NRF (National Research Foundation); OTKA (Orszรกgos Tudomรกnyos Kutatรกsi Alapprogramok โ Hungarian Scientific Research Fund).
Dr Will Archer
Dr Will Archer is Head of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the National Museum. Willโs interests are in quantitative approaches to generating high-quality datasets through the study of stone artefacts, and through excavations of new promising archaeological sites with the best recovery methods, and he has published relatively widely in some of the leading journals in the fields of archaeology and human evolution.
Will reviews for the Journal of Human Evolution, Evolutionary Anthropology, Heritage Science, the Journal of Palaeolithic Archaeology, Nature: Scientific Reports, Nature Communications, the Journal of Archaeological Science, the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Anthropological and Archaeological Sciences, the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, the Journal of African Archaeology, the Journal of Lithic Studies, PlosOne, Antiquity, the South African Archaeological Bulletin, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (PPP) and several funding organizations including the Leakey Foundation.
Dr Lizel Hugo-Coetzee
Dr Lizel Hugo-Coetzee is a Principal Museum Scientist in the Terrestrial Invertebrate Department at the National Museum. She specializes in oribatid mite taxonomy and ecology.
Below is a list of the journals that she reviews for:
Acarologia; Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae; Biologia; International Journal of Acarology; PeerJ; Persian Journal of Acarology; Scientific Reports; Systematic and Applied Acarology; Zootaxa.
Dr Hendrik Snyders
Dr Hendrik Snyders is a Principal Museum Scientist and Head of the Department of History at the National Museum. He specialises in colonial and sport history. Over the past three years, Hendrik conducted reviews or was invited to conduct reviews for the following journals:
- Sporting Traditions (Academic Journal of the Australian Sport History Society)
- South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation
- Society and Animals (Journal of the Animals & Society Institute, Michigan, USA )
- Sport History Review (Human Kinetics Journals, Pennsylvania, USA)
- Unisa Press (University of South Africa)
- Sport in History (Journal of the British Society for Sport History)
- International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics (Routledge Taylor & Francis)
- International Journal of the History of Sport (Journal of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport).
ย Dr Michael F. Bates
Photo credit: S. Parusnath.
Dr Michael F. Bates is a Specialist Scientist and Head of the Herpetology Department at the National Museum. Michaelโs main focus is taxonomic studies of snakes and lizards.
Mike has done reviews for the following journals:
- African Journal of Herpetology
- African Herp News (bulletin/newsletter)
- Herpetology Notes
- Koedoe
- Arnoldia Zimbabwe
- Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research
- Durban Natural Science Museum Novitates
- Zoological Research
- Zootaxa
Burgert Muller
Burgert Muller is a Senior Museum Scientist in the Department Terrestrial Invertebrates at the National Museum. Burgertโs research interests are the systematics and taxonomy of Afrotropical houseflies, more specifically shootflies (family Muscidae) as well as Water snipe flies (family Athericidae). He has published in several entomological journals. He also has a keen interest in Georeferencing as well as Ecological niche modelling.
Burgert acts as reviewer for African Entomology, African Invertebrates (also acts as subject editor), Austral Entomology, Entomologistโs Monthly Magazine, Zookeys and Zootaxa.
Dr. Nico Avenant is the HOD: Mammalogy. He has conducted reviews for:
Acta Theriologica, Acta Oecologia, African Journal of Ecology, African Zoology, Annals of the South African Museum, Australian Mammalogy, Belgian Journal of Zoology, Bollettino del Museo regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino, Durban Museum Novitates, Integrative Zoology, Journal of Mammalogy, Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum, Bloemfontein / Indago, South African Journal of Wildlife Research, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa and Wildlife Research.
He has also been a Scientific Assessor for four scientific books, and a reviewer of five chapters in another book series.
Nico has reviewed applications and proposals, include the National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF); South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP); Flemish University Development Cooperation (VLIR-UOS); South African National Antartic Programme (SANAP); Earthwatch Institute, USA.; National Geographic; Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT); and the Free State Department of Small Business Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs (DESTEA).
In an academic capacity he has assessed PhD, MSc and Honours theses for the following universities: Walter Sisulu University, Pretoria University, Johannesburg University, Stellenbosch University, KwaZulu-Natal University (Westville Campus), Central University of Technology, University of the Free State (QwaQwa campus), University of the Free State (Bloemfontein campus), University of Venda; University of Fort Hare, University of the Witwatersrand, and internationally for the University of Namibia, Namibia; University of Neuchatel, Switserland; Universitรฉ dโAbomey-Calavi, Benin. He has served on the defense panels for PhD students from the Universities of Colorado and Arkansas (USA).
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