Abstract
AbstractPeer review is a process in which a paper’s validity, originality and academic content are checked prior to publication in a good journal. In other words, it is ‘evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies’. The people who carry out this work are called reviewers or referees [1].
Highlights
After a paper has been submitted, the editors have the first read and check if the manuscript is suitable for the journal. If they feel that the science in the article is worth publishing does it undergo the process of peer review (Fig. 32.1)
An editor often takes the help of the expertise of the members of his editorial board for the peer review process
Single-blind peer review—this is the commonest type of review in which the names of the authors are concealed from the reviewer
Summary
Peer review is a process in which a paper’s validity, originality and academic content are checked prior to publication in a good journal. In other words, it is ‘evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies’. The people who carry out this work are called reviewers or referees [1]. The science in a manuscript should be good enough for it to be published. Bad science even with good statistics should not be accepted. The peer-review process is called the ‘art of trashing a paper’ as it has been said that 99% of scientific literature belongs to the waste paper bin [2]. In 1979, Dr Stephen Lock, the editor of the British Medical Journal wrote, ‘few things are more dispiriting to a medical editor than having to reject a paper based on a good idea but with irremediable flaws in the methods used’
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