What’s currently missing from the peer review training available for researchers?
Everyone knows that peer review is the cornerstone of academic publishing. We all rely on other experts, our peers, to ‘quality control’ submitted research, to suggest improvements and changes, all before articles are finally – hopefully – published in journals. The higher-profile the journal, the better from a researcher’s perspective, which just makes the peer review process harder and more of a ‘survival story’ for most academics. Indeed, research should not be published in a non-peer reviewed journal and authors should not be ‘suckered’ into placing their work in journals that do not follow standard peer review. It’s a shame that often, at the end of the peer review process for one of their papers, researchers often feel drained, exhausted, and shattered by this arduous process rather than able to celebrate the achievement of having a research article published. We need to change this dynamic!
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