Responding to Peer Reviewer Comments: A Free Example Letter Responding to the comments peer reviewers offer when they assess your research paper can be as challenging as writing the original manuscript, especially when the necessity of revising your paper to…
How To Respond When a Journal Editor Asks You To Do a Peer Review
How To Respond When a Journal Editor Asks You To Do a Peer Review | Tips on How to Get Your Research Published You just received a request from the editor of a reputable scientific journal asking if you would…
The Benefits and Rewards of Peer Reviewing Journal Articles
The Benefits and Rewards of Peer Reviewing Journal Articles | Tips on How to Get Your Research Published If you are considering becoming a peer reviewer for an academic or scientific journal, you are probably already aware that there can…
How Journal Editors and Peer Reviewers Make Decisions at Journals
How Journal Editors and Peer Reviewers Make Decisions at Journals Scholarly journals vary widely – in the content they consider, in the styles and modes of presentation they prefer, in the peer-reviewing practices they use and in the reasons that…
What Does a High-Quality Peer Review of a Journal Article Contain?
What Does a High-Quality Peer Review of a Journal Article Contain? | Tips on How to Get Your Research Published The answer to this question is far from simple. The policies and processes of peer review differ from journal to…
A Few Tips on Becoming a Peer Reviewer for Journal Submissions
A Few Tips on Becoming a Peer Reviewer for Journal Submissions | Tips on How to Get Your Research Published Are you are thinking about becoming a peer reviewer for a scholarly journal that publishes academic or scientific articles in…
The Dos and Don’ts of How To Reply to Peer Review Comments
The Dos and Don’ts of How To Reply to Peer Review Comments When that journal editor you have been waiting to hear from finally writes to say that the research paper you submitted cannot be published in its present form…
How To Write an Article for Editors, Peer Reviewers & Readers
How To Write an Article for Editors, Peer Reviewers & Readers Academic and scientific journals publish many different types of articles, so exactly how to write an article for a particular journal and its proofreaders, reviewers and readers will depend…
Three Kinds of Peer Review used by Academic and Scientific Journals
Three Kinds of Peer Review: Pros and Cons | Tips on How to Get Your Research Published There are three different types of peer review that are used by academic and scientific journals. They are known as single blind review,…
What Do Journal Editors Want from Peer Reviewers?
What Do Journal Editors Want from Peer Reviewers? | Tips on How to Get Your Research Published On one level, the answer to this question is a simple one. The proofreaders of scholarly journals want peer reviewers who send them…
What You Should Not Do While Writing a Peer Review
What You Should Not Do While Writing a Peer Review Although there is plenty of advice available on peer reviewing for scientific journals, that advice tends to blend the discussion of what a reviewer should not do with that of…
A Constructive Approach to the Challenging Task of Peer Reviewing
A Constructive Approach to the Challenging Task of Peer Reviewing | Tips on How to Get Your Research Published You have just decided to accept the invitation of a journal editor to peer review a scientific article. The paper is…
Peer Reviewers are People Too…and Generous Scholars as Well
Peer Reviewers are People Too…and Generous Scholars as Well Given the stiff competition for publication space in top-tier journals, it is little wonder that many academic and scientific authors tend to think of the peer review process as tantamount to…
What To Do When the Peer Reviewers Are Wrong
What To Do When the Peer Reviewers Are Wrong | Tips on How to Get Your Research Published Peer review is a valuable aspect of scholarly publication, and most peer reviewers genuinely want to help the authors and journals for…
Adversarial Peer Reviews and What To Do To Prevent Them
Adversarial Peer Reviews and What To Do To Prevent Them Written in the context of Computer Science, this witty and informative article on the techniques of adversarial reviewers is well worth a read no matter what field you are working…
Acknowledging the Essential Role of Peer Reviewers
Acknowledging the Essential Role of Peer Reviewers Peer reviews are vital for maintaining high standards in academic and scientific publication, and many scholars invest a great deal of time in reviewing the articles submitted to journals and offering commentary to…
Tips for Author-Suggested Preferred & NON-Preferred Peer Reviewers
A brief article recently published in BioEssays provides helpful insight into the thought processes of journal proofreaders when choosing peer reviewers for scholarly articles. The writer of the article, an editor speaking from experience, suggests that the efforts of authors to…
The Dark Side of Peer Reviews, or Should That Be Dark Sides?
The Dark Side of Peer Reviews, or Should That Be Dark Sides? If you have ever had to remove all hints of your identity from an article before submitting it to a scientific journal, you have probably experienced a double-blind…
