How Do You Explain The Peer Review Process?
The peer review process is sometimes difficult for students to understand. When explaining this process a step by step method makes it easy and straightforward. Explain that the peer review process is most often used for articles published in scholarly journals. You should also mention that the term peer-review is often used interchangeably with refereed. Explain that for an article to become peer reviewed, it must be submitted to a panel of experts in the field who make sure the information is accurate and credible. These experts are often serve as peer reviewers for a certain scholarly journal or publisher. It is also useful to explain the benefits of peer reviewed publications. These publications are more likely to be credible sources of information, and are more respected in the academic community. It is also worth mentioning that the peer review process is time consuming and can slow down the publication of articles. Sometimes even causing articles to be out of date by the time th
