Civil, sensible, and constructive peer review in APS journals

Civil, sensible, and constructive peer review in APS journals.

Hershel Raff and Dennis Brown Departments of Medicine, Surgery, and Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin and the Endocrine Research Laboratory, Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center, Aurora Research Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Center for Systems Biology and Program in Membrane Biology and Division of Nephrology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massach...

Peer Review of Electronic Journals

The recent literature about peer review of scholarly articles is reviewed, with particular emphasis on the cost of the peer-review process. Possible impacts of electronic scholarly publishing upon peer reviewing are discussed. Opinion amongst academics in their roles as authors, editors and referees seems likely to insist upon preservation of a prepublication refereeing system in most disciplin...

[Peer review journals in the digital age].

Peer Review Process in Medical Journals

Reviewers play key roles in manuscript processing and publication. This article describes in detail how the reviewer serves their two key roles as a gatekeeper of making publication recommendations for the editorial board and a consultant providing constructive comments to authors to improve the quality of the manuscripts to be published.

Shortcomings of peer review in biomedical journals