Post provided by Lydia Morley Today, peer review is a foundation of academic publishing. It serves as a checks and balances system to ensure that researchers present work of high quality, novelty, and relevance to the greater academic community. When our work is accepted for publication, it has quite literally been judged by a jury of our peers. And like a real jury, the review … Continue reading The Evolution and Diversity of Peer Review
At the British Ecological Society journals we strongly encourage senior academics to review our manuscripts in collaboration with more junior members of their labs.
We believe that this is fantastic training for Early Career Researchers, whether it involves sitting down and combing through a manuscript together, or, if they already have some experience, the junior researcher writing the report and the senior researcher editing and adding comments later. We also recommend that the Early Career Researchers read our handy Guide to Peer Review before conducting their report.
This Peer Review Week, some of our past co-reviewers have kindly shared their thoughts on the process.
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