What Constitutes a Good Peer Review?
In the world of academic publishing, a formal peer review can occur at different points in the publication process. Though not formal in structure, the first review of your…
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How Should Peer Reviewers Be Evaluated?
Peer Review: A Forgotten Service?
The peer review process in academic journal publishing only seems to get attention when something goes wrong. From the perspective of an anxious…
What Is a Transferable Peer Review System?
Starting Over
Receiving a rejection notice or a request for endless revisions prior to re-submission (which you choose to decline) has the frustrating result of having to start…
Selecting International Peer Reviewers
Is the Peer Review Process Blinkered?
The process of evaluating the academic or scientific research work of others has always rested on the foundation of using peers from the same…
To Peer Review or Not to Peer Review: Should We Publish Everything?
As the world of academic publishing has struggled to embrace digital technology and the phenomenal growth of open access journals, the process of peer review has remained…
What Happens When the Peer Editor Is Wrong?
You open the email from the editor of the journal you submitted your article to, what now seems like ages ago and you see those wonderful words: Your article has been accepted for…
Experts’ Take on Peer Review Evaluation (PRE)
The quality of a journal’s papers is largely determined by the quality of its peer review. This screening mechanism is designed to ensure that the data and conclusions presented…
Why Would Anyone Want to Be a Peer Reviewer?
Contributing to the Academic Community
Advocates argue that the contribution made by the peer review process to academic publishing is chronically undervalued.
Leveraging the…
Should Peer Review Be Transparent?
The anonymity of the peer review process has always been regarded as a key tenet of the quality and integrity of academic publishing. The freedom to comment openly and without fear…
The Future of Peer Review
The process of peer review in academic publishing is relatively straightforward. When a journal editor likes the look of a submitted article or research paper, it is sent out for…
Why Quality Data is Lost with Advancement in Technology?
A Double-Edged Sword
While the days of the television stations, landline telephones, punch-card computers, and library card catalogs may be decades behind us now, the rapid…
Experimenting With Collaborative Peer Review
Wouldn’t it be great during peer review if the editors and reviewers could sit down together and discuss the paper among themselves, hashing out any issues with the manuscript as a…