Reviewing and publishing work done by peers
Topic: Reviewer responsibilities
Do you know what you could and should do as a peer reviewer or referee to ensure that manuscripts you are reading are free of plagiarism?
This topic is designed to help you to improve:
- your understanding of peer reviewing standards, and of citation and paraphrase quality
- the way you carry out reviewing work, and the way you prepare your own work for peer review
In this topic, you can test your knowledge about plagiarism prevention in peer reviewing of research proposals, grant applications and papers for publication.
Test yourself: Plagiarism prevention in peer reviewing
Further reading on this topic :
Mulligan, A. (2004, August). Is peer review in crisis? Perspectives in Publishing, 2. Retrieved June 1, 2006, from http://www.elsevier.com/framework_editors/pdfs/PerspPubl2.pdf
Ways to improve the peer review process were put forward by international focus groups of authors, referees and editors across a range of disciplines, conducted by Elsevier Publishing.
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