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How To Become A Peer Reviewer? Fundamental And Advanced Training

The fundamental and advanced peer reviewer training program, suitable for peer reviewers in any subject area is endorsed by Wolters Kluwer and SPIE. The course is co-delivered by prolific and award winning peer reviewers. This program offers a blend of online learning and hands-on peer review experience and is ideal for new and established peer reviewers.

3,738 Enrolled

6 hours

English

Video + Text

10 modules

3 Checklists, 13 PDFs

Online, On-demand learning

Access on any device

Certificate on completion

What you learn

  • An overview of peer reviews and journal publication workflows
  • Understand skills, qualifications needed to be a great peer reviewer
  • How to identify focus areas in different sections of a manuscript
  • Deep dive into the process of conducting a peer review
  • How to review different types of research manuscripts
  • Focus areas when reviewing statistical information or methodology in a paper
  • The right approach to peer review with a mock assignment and detailed evaluation
  • Tips and extensive feedback from experienced peer reviewers and consultations on course content
  • Practical strategies to get invited as a peer reviewer by top journals in your field
  • How to apply learnings to your review projects with checklists and other resources
  • Description

    Peer review is a critical component of the scientific process that helps safeguard the quality, validity authority and rigour of academic work.

    This engaging and comprehensive training program will help you with everything you need to know before and during a peer review. Designed with the collective expertise of three accomplished peer reviewers, this is a comprehensive guide for those starting out and a great program for experienced reviewers to polish their skills. With in-depth lectures that cover every aspect of peer review, insightful discussions, expert advice, key learning resources, and regular assessments, this training program will put you firmly on the path to becoming a great peer reviewer!

    Being identified as a great peer reviewer adds significant value to your resume and reputation; it equates to being recognized and accepted as an expert in your field by your peers. If you are an early career researcher who wants to be a peer reviewer, or have received your first peer review invitation but don’t know how to get started, this course is perfect for you.

    This advanced module in the program also lets you get your peer review assignments evaluated by expert peer reviewers. This unique application based assignment will help you understand the finer nuances of reviewing and focus on areas of improvement.


    Modules

    Preview course

    LECTURE 1 | Document/Slides

    Understanding the peer review process

    36 mins

    LECTURE 2 | Document/Slides

    Do you have what it takes to be a peer reviewer?

    36 mins

    LECTURE 3 | Document/Slides

    You’ve accepted the editor’s invitation, what next?

    36 mins

    LECTURE 4 | Document/Slides

    A deep dive into conducting a peer review

    36 mins

    LECTURE 5 | Document/Slides

    Decision time – recommendations and evaluation

    36 mins

    LECTURE 6 | Document/Slides

    Tying it all up with downloadable templates and more

    36 mins

    LECTURE 7 | Document/Slides

    Concluding the basic course module

    36 mins

    LECTURE 8 | Document/Slides

    Advanced Module I – Dealing with methodology and statistics

    36 mins

    LECTURE 9 | Document/Slides

    Advanced Module II – Going that extra mile

    36 mins

    LECTURE 10 | Document/Slides

    Training effectiveness survey

    36 mins

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    Instructors (3)

    Dr. Jonas Ranstam

    Medical statistician, award-winning peer reviewer, independent statistical consultant

    Dr. Jonas Ranstam is the most prolific peer reviewer in the world and has reviewed as many as 661 papers in a year. In 2016, he was the overall winner of the Sentinels of Science Awards initiated by Publons to recognize the efforts of reviewers. He was also acknowledged as one of the Top Reviewers for 2016 by Publons.

    Before retiring…

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    Dr. Jo Roislien

    Science Communicator; Mathematician; Biostatistician; Professor of Medical Statistics at University of Stavanger, Norway

    Jo Røislien is a famous international science communicator who reaches a wide audience by appearing regularly on radio, television, and the printed press. He delivers lectures on the communication of complex topics, knowledge dissemination, and his own research.

    He is a Norwegian mathematician, biostatistician, and researcher in medicine…

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    Prof. Caven Mcloughlin

    Ph.D., Professor, Kent State University, Ohio USA

    Caven is a Professor of Psychology at Kent State University, Ohio. A qualified school psychologist, Caven works at Ohio’s largest school psychology preparation program and instructs students in early childhood school psychology. For over 25 years, he has been conducting federally funded training programs for interdisciplinary leadership…

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    Reviews (9)

    Maninder Ahuja

    Good discussion about conflicts of interest disclosure which can be six issues, personal, financial, religious ,intellectual, professional or political.It is good idea to highlight the issue of not using information from article submitted and ethical issues of plagiarism or duplication.

    Akinwande Akinhanmi

    Very useful lessons learnt

    Lalitagauri Mandke

    Good discussion . Made some points clear.

    Dr A.K.M Shafiul Kadir

    Very informative content

    BV Krishnareddy

    Relevant information provided

    Sara Bolynn

    Great information

    Mustafa Khidir Mustafa Elnimeiri

    The lectures and the materials are interested and enjoyable to learn Thanks

    Nobuhiro Sato

    This course is quite educational for starter of peer reviewer. it was step by step lecture. then we can easily understand those steps! I thank you for giving this great opportunity to become a good reviewer.

    Victor Daniel Miron

    Great course! Thank you!

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