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Investing in the Academic Writing: Training Future Reviewers and Sustaining Efficient and Quality Peer Review

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: Peer reviewers are considered gatekeepers in academic writing who play a pivotal and essential role during the publication process. Excellent manuscripts invariably need excellent reviewers. Producing peer reviewers with such caliber is time-consuming albeit necessary for the progress and continuity of academia. Despite the popular belief that an experienced author invariably makes a good reviewer, the reality is far-fetched. This suggests the need for peer reviewer training, which should be effective, logistically affordable, and demonstrate long-lasting positive impacts. Open review, co-review, and several reviewer training programs are already in place for this purpose with varying efficiencies. This narrative review discusses the current modalities available to a junior reviewer to improve his/her review skills and proposes a reviewer residency concept that could be adopted as a part of peer reviewer training.

Source: Cureus

DOI: 10.7759/cureus.30341

Authors: B.M. Munasinghe, Champa Chapman, Chinthaka Hewavitharane, Gayathri Hewawasam, T.G. Dissanayakege

Institution: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital

Language: English

Topic: Academic Writing and Publishing

Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4306322233