This week is Peer Review Week, an event which aims to promote the vital importance of good peer review in scholarly communications. Peer review is central to what we do as academic publishers, and over the years we’ve written about this topic on the blog a number of times. In celebration of Peer Review Week, here are three of our top blog posts on the subject…
The Worthwhile Challenge of Peer Review
A post giving an overview of what peer review is and why we need it, and how the peer review process works here at Channel View/Multilingual Matters.
Peer review is central to academic publishing, yet many academics receive no training on how to do it. In this post our Editorial Director, Anna, offers some guidance on the whats, hows, dos and don’ts of peer review.
Peer Review and the Research Excellence Framework (REF)
A post by one of the editors of our Aspects of Tourism series, Chris Cooper, in which he discusses why scholarly peer review is so important when assessing research.
For more information about Peer Review Week, check out the website here.
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