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                     WHAT IS PEER-
REVIEW  OF A 
LMISAT NOUUTS THCER BIEPNTE.FITS OF 
PEER-  REVIEWING A 
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An Academic presentation by
Dr. Nancy Agnes, Head, Technical Operations, 
Pubrica  Group: www.pubrica.com
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Today's Discussion
Outline
In-Brief  
Introducti
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Manuscript Should Also 
Include  Methodology
Benefits of Peer-reviewing a 
Manuscript  Conclusion
In-Brief
Peer review is the critical assessment of manuscripts submitted to journals 
 by experts who are usually not part of the editorial staff. “The investigator’s  
final manuscript of a peer-reviewed article accepted for journal publication,
including all modifications from the peer review process.”
Introduction
Peer review can be described as a process in which a 
 person reads, checks and gives his or her opinion on 
a  piece of work written by another scientist or expert
working in the same field.
Generally speaking, two forms of peer review can be  
distinguished: ‘in-class peer review’ for undergraduate  
students and academic peer review’ for research scholars.
During an in-class peer review, undergraduate students  
read articles written by fellow classmates and offer input on 
 their work as part of the teaching aspects of the program.
Contd..
Academic peer review (hereafter “peers review”) is, on the contrary, a more 
 complicated process. Peer review is a central aspect of academic study.
Authors were submitting a manuscript outlining their findings, editors determining 
 whether the paper will be offered for peer review and eventually accepted for  
publication, and peer reviewers performing evaluations that will allow the editor to 
 make a better-informed decision on suitability.
These reviewers play an understated yet crucial role in the process, utilizing their 
 capability to constructively critique a piece of work for the benefit of the broader
s cientific community.
Manuscript 
 Should Figures, charts, tables and images
Also  
Supplemental materials associated with the work
Include
Title page
Names and affiliations of the authors
The corresponding author’s name and email address 
 Grant award acknowledgements
Contd..

Methodology
To gain insight into the attitudes towards the  
participation of ecrs in peer review, we have distributed 
 a survey to academics in ten countries across the 
globe.
The survey covered numerous aspects of the peer  
review process, including how many peer-review invites  
are commonly accepted by academics, if they included  
ecrs postgraduate researchers only in their evaluations, 
 and if so, what was their motivation to involve ecrs.
We requested that academics determine the effect of 
 peer review on the essential skills of their students  
based on their previous experience.
Contd..
Besides, a separate survey was distributed to the ecrs (student survey) to assess 
 their attitudes towards peer review participation.
Complete details of survey questions for both the academic and the ecr surveys can 
 be found in the supplementary materials section.
For the survey, terminology graduate students (pgrs) is used instead of ecrs 
 (supplementary materials).
It was to be differentiated explicitly from undergraduate researchers who were not 
 the subject of our study.
Benefits of 
 Peer-   CORRECTS VAGUE 
TERMS
reviewing While i use an online thesaurus every time i write to 
a  find the right word to describe a concept, in some  
Manuscrip cases, some words seem to be incorrect or vague.
t Having input from peers lets me determine whether i  
have to adhere to my terms or consider what they say.
I do not hesitate to alter the words in question if the 
 idea sounds fine.
Contd..
 PROVIDES FEEDBACK AS TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF YOUR COMMUNICATION
If grasped the points you advanced in your manuscript, you can readily see from the 
 reactions of your peer group.
Suppose that after a page has been displayed to provide their input, it takes them a
little longer than expected, which will possibly mean that something is wrong with the 
 flow of thinking or conversation.
Questions for clarity will most likely come next. And yes, they have.
Contd..
 PREVENTS YOU FROM COMMITTING SERIOUS BLUNDERS IN YOUR 
ARGUMENTS
You may have made points that may be based on incorrect assumptions. 
 Once the beliefs are false, then everything you’ve published is wrong.
This result observes the laws of logic.
If the premises are defective, so it is unreliable with anything that goes 
beyond it.
 FACILITATES CONCISE WRITING
More than what is required, you might have written.
Contd..
The elimination here and there of needless paragraphs or phrases gives rise to a 
 short, adequately written manuscript.
Some people are fond of focusing on spelling and grammatical mistakes.
While attention should be given to the substance or claims of your research paper, 
 your grammar matters a lot.
As the reading flow is made more efficient, good grammar encourages reading.
 ALLOWS YOU TO EXPOUND ON YOUR POINTS
Perhaps you felt you had written sufficiently to clarify the matter at hand.
Contd..
Then you know that you have brought your peers halfway to the expected  
ideas you want to project.
This situation requires clarification on the questions you have raised to 
 understand and illustrate concepts.
 ENCOURAGES YOU TO PERFORM BETTER NEXT TIME
The next time you are on the watch for the possible comments, suggestions, 
 or criticism of your book, if the peer review exercise has shown you any  
positive feedback.
Contd..
When you add all the terms and recommendations of colleagues, you will then 
 compose better than ever.
Thus in your previous article, you stop making the same errors. 
 There are tremendous advantages to peer-review.
Conclusio
n
In conclusion, the method of peer-review is collegial at 
 its best, not adversarial.
Finally, when guided by attentive, detailed, insightful  
reviews, and they have the privilege of seeing papers  
and journal reputations improve as part of the process, 
 editors gain trust in their decisions to accept an article.
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