Developing Your Expertise as a Peer Reviewer

The Influence of Peer Reviewer Expertise on the Evaluation of Research Funding Applications

Although the scientific peer review process is crucial to distributing research investments, little has been reported about the decision-making processes used by reviewers. One key attribute likely to be important for decision-making is reviewer expertise. Recent data from an experimental blinded review utilizing a direct measure of expertise has found that closer intellectual distances between...

Book Review: "Developing Expertise Through Experience"

The book ‘Developing expertise through experience’consists of twenty chapters written by language educators. Alan Maley has edited the book. The writers of the chapters have written their stories and experiences about learning English and being an Educator with regard to the notion of ‘sense of plausibility’ defined by Prabhu. Prabhu explains that plausibility in pedagogy is teachers’ intuition...

Expertise-Based Peer Selection

6.1 Introduction Peer-to-Peer systems are distributed systems without centralized control or hierarchical organization, in which each node runs software with equivalent functionality. A review of the features of recent Peer-to-Peer applications yields a long list: redundant storage, permanence, selection of nearby servers, anonymity, search, authentication, and hierarchical naming. Despite this...

Peer reviewer: what commitment is that?

The plight of the peer reviewer.

I read with interest the paper by Scheller et al., suggesting a better clinical outcome when patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention and stenting received an ionic contrast medium during the procedure than when non-ionic contrast media were used. These results are surprising since they completely disagree with the results of two randomized clinical trials comparing ionic and non-...