About Reviewers


Journal Reviewers

Peer review in all its forms plays an important role in ensuring the integrity of the scholarly record. The process depends to a large extent on trust, and requires that everyone involved behaves responsibly and ethically. Peer reviewers play a central and critical part in the peer-review process, but too often come to the role without any guidance and unaware of their ethical obligations. COPE has produced some guidelines which set out the basic principles and standards to which all peer reviewers should adhere during the peer-review process in research publication. The aim has been to make them generic so that they can be applied across disciplines.

Peer reviewers play a role in ensuring the integrity of the scholarly record. The peer review process depends to a large extent on the trust and willing participation of the scholarly community and requires that everyone involved behaves responsibly and ethically. Peer reviewers play a central and critical part in the peer review process, but may come to the role without any guidance and be unaware of their ethical obligations. Journals have an obligation to provide transparent policies for peer review, and reviewers have an obligation to conduct reviews in an ethical and accountable manner.


Book Reviewers

Books usually undergo a series of reviews, starting with a rigorous review process at the proposal stage. Editors working at publishing companies contact experts in the field and provide the written proposals and often a draft table of contents for feedback.

Once a book project passes the proposal phase, it enters the manuscript phase, where another round of reviews is often conducted by a new expert or experts in the field. Feedback at this stage is often collected by the in-house editor, who works with the individual book author or editors to adapt it and better shape the book project on the path to publication.


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