{"id":6600,"date":"2017-03-10T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/?p=6600"},"modified":"2022-03-17T20:04:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T14:04:47","slug":"peer-review-recognition-a-resume-booster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/peer-review-recognition-a-resume-booster\/","title":{"rendered":"Peer Review Recognition: A Resume Booster?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Academic peer reviewers, also known as referees, are responsible for evaluating the work of researchers with a similar expertise as themselves. The peer review process<\/a> serves as a form of self-regulation through the use of qualified persons within the relevant field. Journals use peer reviewers to evaluate papers for academic publication<\/a> in order to maintain quality standards, improve the findings of a study, and to provide credibility. Ultimately, scholarly peer review<\/a> is used to determine an academic paper’s appropriateness for publication.<\/p>\n

Journals typically request researchers to be reviewers of articles that they might be able to assess and constructively critique. The researchers can either accept or deny the request to be a reviewer. Academic researchers wear many hats, and one of these hats is accepting the role as a peer reviewer. Traditionally, peer reviewers remain anonymous and are thus, unrecognized. Once a paper is published the reviewers are often forgotten. In fact, a Wiley survey of 3000 reviewers<\/a> reveals that reviewers, at the present time, feel that reviewing is unsatisfactorily recognized and should actually carry more weight during the evaluation process conducted by institutions.<\/p>\n

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Recognizing Peer Reviewers<\/h2>\n

Over the last few years, there has been an increasing amount of support contributing to the recognition of peer reviewers. This is highlighted by the fact that there is a global event called \u201cPeer Review Week<\/a>\u201d that is held to celebrate the vital role that peer review plays in upholding scientific quality. The event involves individuals, institutions, and organizations that are dedicated to spreading the notion that a good peer review is critical to scholarly publications. The theme of \u201cPeer Review Week\u201d in 2016 was recognition for review. There is a sizable portion of the academic community that is asking for credit, and it seems that the publishers are looking to provide credit. On the other hand, it is arbitrary whether institutions want to credit people for peer review activities. For quite some time there has been a clear understanding of the importance of the peer review process, and it is only a recent occurrence that there is a firm commitment to recognizing peer reviewers.<\/p>\n

A number of publishers have already put together mechanisms by which they can recognize reviewers. Here, we highlight several of those.<\/p>\n