How To Survive Peer Review

How to Survive Peer Review is a practical handbook designed to help anybody who wants to get their work published in a scientific journal, wants to apply for research funds or who has to undergo formal appraisals at work. It will also help people who have been asked to review articles, abstracts or grant applications. These activities are an essential part of scientific life, yet they virtually never get covered in professional training. It is often difficult even to get any helpful information about the processes from journals, meetings or funders. For the first time, this book brings together all you need to know, with authoritative advice from three authors who have researched peer review extensively and have considerable practical experience as researchers, editors and reviewers. Introduction.

What is peer review?.

How to be a reviewer.

How to survive peer review.

Professional peer review.

Informal peer review

Elizabeth Wager is the author of How To Survive Peer Review, published by Wiley.

Fiona Godlee is the author of How To Survive Peer Review, published by Wiley.

Tom Jefferson is the author of How To Survive Peer Review, published by Wiley.

This practical guide gives you valuable advice on how to survive the process of peer review in all its forms. From explaining exactly what it is to the detail of submitting your paper or abstract it steers you through the main obstacles to getting research funded, published or presented.

How to Survive Peer Review is also for reviewers themselves: poacher turned gamekeeper—it is likely that you will be asked to peer review too. In concise, easy to follow style this book provides essential information for reviewers of scientific papers, conference abstracts and grant proposals.

It addresses too the increasingly important area of professional peer review, now being adopted in career appraisal. Another unique feature is a chapter on informal peer review and how to benefit from this in a wide range of situations.

The comprehensive contents include:

• What is peer review?
• How to be a reviewer
• Surviving peer review
• Professional peer review
• Informal peer review

Written by three of the best known figures in the field of peer review this is an authoritative yet highly readable aid for all healthcare professionals who want to advance their careers and increase their publication list.