Every article sent by an author to a reputed scientific journal undergoes a rigorous editorial
evaluation. The editor has the final responsibility of accepting or rejecting manuscripts and …

The publication process of a scientific article in a journal is a demanding and often lengthy
process. Authors, reviewers and editors play a vital role in the transmission of scientific …

While the process of peer reviewing journal articles submitted for publication has been
extensively investigated, particularly in the biomedical field, the language of peer reviews is …

The appraisal of scientific quality is a particularly difficult problem. Editorial boards resort to
secondary criteria including crude publication counts, journal prestige, the reputation of …

Editorial peer review has developed in a slow and haphazard way, and has only become
truly institutionalised since the 1940s, mainly in response to the evolving complexity of the …

This comprehensive yet concise book provides a thorough and complete guide to every
aspect of managing the peer review process for scientific journals. Until now, little …

This study compared the editorial peer review experiences of authors who published in two
groups of indexed US medical journals. The study tested the hypothesis that after one …

Background The usefulness of peer review has been expressed as a method to improve the
quality of published work. However, there has been a lack of systematic reviews to date to …

Peer review is well established across most academic disciplines, and publishers, editors,
and researchers devote considerable resources to it. This paper uses examples from …

Peer-and editorial review of research submitted to biomedical journals ('manuscript review')
is frequently argued to be essential for ensuring scientific quality and the dissemination of …