Understanding the role of Peer Reviewer
0Tuesday, October 30, 2012 by Dongxia Wang
When we are searching library databases, we can limit our results to peer reviewed articles only in order to retrieve high quality articles. At that time, I had no idea how peer review process works and how many people work behind the publication. Most of time I only read peer reviewed articles because I think it has more authority. After today’s class, I have more understanding about the peer review process. Peer review is playing a big role in publication process that it has a great impact on authors who wish to get their works published. As a peer reviewer, they should stand in the shoe of the author, making effort to read the articles to understand the author’s point of view. It would be helpful if peer reviewers can make concrete suggestion, giving the citations of literature when they think it is important to supplement the author’s point. The peer reviewers also need to make sure they make consistent comments, not contradicting to each other. I think the most important thing is to provide the reviews that you would like to receive. On the other hand, as an author who wants to publish, do not be discouraged by the process. To work collaboratively with peer reviewer will help you to improve your works and get it published eventually.
