How to Peer Review Research Papers
Information and Booking
Tutor: Dr David T Jones - Independent Consultant
Cost: Internal no charge.
Duration: Half-day (10.00-12.30)
Dates:
2021:
27 October
2022:
23 March
22 June
What have past participants found most useful?
- How to break up the peer review process and limit it. Receiving a template for reviewing, nobody teaches this!
- The session really helped me organise the reviews and familiarise myself with the whole process. It also helps me write good papers.
- Dr David T Jones is a perfect presenter and speaker; it was an excellent, engaging, practical session.
Overview
The ability to review papers should be a core skill of every research scientist. With the growing number of manuscripts being submitted to scientific journals, editors are increasingly reliant on independent experts who can deliver good-quality reviews in a timely fashion.
This course is designed for postdocs and researchers at the early stage of their career who have little or no experience of peer-reviewing.
Key areas
- How the peer-review process works from submission to publication
- Recent developments such as “open” peer-review
- The reviewer’s obligations
- The criteria against which scientific papers should be evaluated
- The requirement for objective, specific, constructive and balanced comments that will assist both the editor and the author(s)
- The amount of time involved in reviewing a paper
