Product Description

′Peer Review: A Survival Guide′ 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #730625 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 72 pages

From the Back Cover
′Peer Review: A Survival Guide′ 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.

Customer Reviews

Review from Urology News, May/June 2009.
The "How to......" series from BMJ books published by Blackwell, who of course are now Wiley Blackwell are an excellent set of books with a common style and a uniform format. As such many comments and observations are applicable across the range. First and foremost these books are nearly all the same handy size, each a different colour and look good on the shelf.

With the exception of the front cover these books are a world of black and white, even the boxes of importance are a sparkling shade of grey! We are all too aware of the global thought in relation to colour publications: The rainbow is in!!

I'm not sure what makes this the weak link, whether it is the poor colour choice that is not in keeping with the other books or whether it's the fact that its old and almost added as an afterthought.
Despite my initial pessimism, I found this book extremely interesting and was pleased to find that it did not merely confine itself to peer review publication. Grant proposal peer review is also described as are other forms of the process.
There are 6 chapters in all, each then further divided to allow "sectioning" of the material offered. The other great thing about this book is that it looks at the process of peer review from both sides of the fence: manuscript submission and also the role of the reviewer.
There are multiple tables throughout, my personal favourite being on page 33: "How to ensure that your paper is rejected" - oh how expert we all are in this!!
In honesty a surprisingly decent book - and small enough for a single sitting!

Reviewer: Ian Pearce, Consultant Urological Surgeon.

Useful
Very slender and not great value, but wide in scope and full of practical and sensible advice.