Juuso Nieminen

Project researcher, University of Eastern Finland

Researching on the socio-cultural aspects of self-assessment in higher education

How the Monster Jury helped me deal with peer review better

I must admit that as a young academic, receiving a decision from a journal stirs up some strong emotions. With trembling hands I read the editor’s decision: Major revisions! Not a rejection, yay! But as I kept reading the reviewer comments, my initial joy soon turned into disappointment.