Be a Manuscript Reviewer

The Anonymous American Idol Manuscript Reviewer

annoyances for reviewers include required registration as government contractors: a lengthy, two-step application process that requires additional follow-up phone calls requesting to be removed from junk email lists, as well as annual re-registration. Moreover, reviewers are now forced to make travel reservations on the cheapest nonrefund-able tickets, entailing additional personal expenses if ...

Effects of a reviewer-prompting strategy on timely manuscript reviews.

We studied a reviewer-prompting system designed to improve the timeliness of journal reviews. The prompting system consisted of an e-mail message sent individually to reviewers noting the manuscript number, review due date, and associated social amenities for the timely completion of the task. Our results indicated that the prompting system increased timely reviews.

The role of the manuscript reviewer in the peer review process.

Peer review of submitted manuscripts is recognized as a critical component of the publication process in all major medical journals. It lends respectability and scientific credibility to those journals that have adopted the process [1]. This function is delegated to a group of persons who perform the task selflessly and without compensation. Of the many facets of the peer review process, the se...

Response to Reviewer : Reviewer :

Dear Plagiarist: A Letter to a Peer Reviewer Who Stole and Published Our Manuscript as His Own.

D Doctor, I am aware that you recently admitted to wrongly publishing, as your own, a scientific research paper that I had submitted to Annals of Internal Medicine. After serving as an external peer reviewer on our manuscript, you published that same manuscript in a different medical journal a few months later. You removed the names of the authors and the research site, replacing them with the ...