- Title
- Peer review and its contribution to manuscript quality: an Australian perspective
- Creator
- Lu, Yanping
- Relation
- Learned Publishing Vol. 21, Issue 4, p. 307-318
- Relation
- http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/default.asp?ID=198
- Publisher
- Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- Journal reviewers' understanding and expectations of peer review, their incentives to take on the task, and the reasons why they sometimes declined were explored through a questionnaire survey, with particular attention to potential differences between education, physics, and chemistry. Eighty-four senior researchers from 27 Australian universities, who had served as reviewers in education, physics, and chemistry, returned a completed questionnaire. There were significant variations in reviewers' expectations and understanding of reviewing, mostly related to seniority rather than discipline. They valued peer review as a way of maintaining the quality of science publications, and were generally satisfied with the current system; their impression of peer review's effectiveness was significantly correlated with their own experience. They saw reviewing as a professional obligation and part of their personal professional development. The most frequently mentioned reasons for declining to review were lack of expertise and lack of time.
- Subject
- peer review; journal publishing; publication quality; reviewing
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43412
- Identifier
- uon:5525
- Identifier
- ISSN:0953-1513
- Language
- eng
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