Hello, everyone. This is Emily. Welcome to this uni-edit video.
How can I become a peer reviewer?
Prospective peer reviewers need to have or be working toward a PhD in a relevant
discipline, and they need to have published papers in that discipline.
Peer-reviewers can be requested by editors who they have previously
published work for; recommended by professors or department supervisors;
discovered based on the information provided when setting up their account
profile on the website; or found through internet searches for authors of
specific topics.
Seeking to be a peer reviewer: Academics can proactively contact a journal editor
and volunteer to be a peer reviewer for manuscripts of that journal. Oftentimes,
this means that the peer reviewer will be added to a database of potential
candidates to become peer reviewers.
I have searched and found information directly off the website of a journal, so
I'm going to look at that with you today. This website is titled 'Becoming a
Reviewer: how and why. It is set up with a series of questions: want to be a
reviewer; what do reviewers do; why review; recognizing reviewers and feedback for
the program. Do you want to be a reviewer? It outlines for this specific
journal the steps you could take. Identify which journal you would like to
review for using the journal finder tool. You'll notice that if I click this, it
will open up a new tab. That will take me specifically to a journal section where
I can choose my area of expertise. This link is especially helpful. I can visit
that journal's home page and view the full editorial board, and contact the
relevant editor. What do reviewers do and why? This is a follow up to the
uni-edit video that we're working on, so reviewing is a time intensive process.
Writing a report can be almost as much work as revising a manuscript, but it is
worthwhile for the reviewer as well as the community. Here's a list of what
reviewers do. Here are why you should become a reviewer. These are the benefits
to review, and this is recognizing reviewers. This says reviewers are
important to us: Elsevier's Reviewer Recognition Program aims to engage
reviewers and reward them for the work they do. The program features several
projects and experiments, so it looks like there are some free memberships,
cross reviewing, as well as a reviewer recognition platform that allows
reviewers to receive some benefits from their work. Lastly, we see the
reviewer feedback program. Once again, this is a specific website that I found
simply with a Google search about how to become a peer reviewer, and this
information is contained on a specific journal's website.
Hopeful peer reviewers need: the right credentials, the right contacts, or even
better, both.
Once again, this is Emily from uni-edit. Have a wonderful day!