Reviewing a Journal Article (Peer Review).
A research paper is an expanded essay that presents your own interpretation or evaluation or argument. When you write an essay, you use everything that you personally know and have thought about a subject. When you write a research paper you build upon what you know about the subject and make a deliberate attempt to find out what experts know.
Welcome to the PLOS Reviewer Center Everything you need to write a peer review right now. A collection of free training and resources for peer reviewers of PLOS journals—and for the peer review community at large, drawn from research and interviews with staff editors, editorial board members, and experienced reviewers.
Reviewers for most journals are anonymous, so if anonymity is important to you, avoid comments that could make your identity obvious to the authors. If the editor sent specific instructions for the reviewer report, or a form to fill out as part of the review, you should write your report in the requested format.
The reviewer is assumed to be a person with an expert power; he is versatile in that niche, therefore, he is expected to ascertain the credibility of the research paper. Cite 10 Recommendations.
How to (read, present, review) a research paper Perdita Stevens School of Informatics University of Edinburgh How to read a research paper. This is the main body of the review. 1. General comments: typically two or three paragraphs (sometimes more), explaining what you think is good and bad.
Editorial criteria and processes.. been made to peer-review the paper, the choice of referees is made by the editor who has been assigned the manuscript, who will be handling other papers in.
TACKLING WITH REVIEWER’S COMMENTS: Comment (a): The abstract of the research paper does not provide a bird’s eye view (snapshot view) of what is being discussed throughout the paper. The reader is likely to be clueless and confused about the contents after reading abstract cited by the authors.