Peer reviewer acknowledgments

Peer reviewer: what commitment is that?

The plight of the peer reviewer.

I read with interest the paper by Scheller et al., suggesting a better clinical outcome when patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention and stenting received an ionic contrast medium during the procedure than when non-ionic contrast media were used. These results are surprising since they completely disagree with the results of two randomized clinical trials comparing ionic and non-...

The Role of the Peer Reviewer.

From the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn (Dr Jacobson); AcademyHealth, Washington, DC (Dr Fairbrother); Department of Pediatrics, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Mass (Dr Sheldrick); and Department of Pediatrics, University of California Los Angeles, Calif (Dr Szilagyi) Conflict of Interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. ...

The panacea statistical toolbox of a biomedical peer reviewer

The main role of a peer reviewer is to make judgments on the research articles by asking a number of questions to evaluate the quality of the research article. Statistics is a major part of any biomedical research article, and most reviewers gain their experiences in manuscript reviewing by undertaking it but not through an educational process. Therefore, reviewers of the biomedical journals no...

On becoming a peer reviewer for a neuropsychology journal.

The peer-review process is an invaluable service provided by the professional community, and it provides the critical foundation for the advancement of science. However, there is remarkably little systematic guidance for individuals who wish to become part of this process. This paper, written from the perspective of reviewers and editors with varying levels of experience, provides general guide...