Welcome to Peer Review Week 2022! 

PRW is an annual event that highlights the importance of peer review in the scholarly ecosystem. The theme for PRW 2022 is “Research Integrity: Creating and supporting trust in research”, highlighting the ways in which peer review contributes to and reinforces trust in scholarship. 

In celebration of Peer Review Week check out Zachary Kendal, Scholarly Communications Consultant, three-part series on Peer Review. The series features the perspectives of four senior editors of academic journals in different fields:

Prof Simine Vazire, Professor of Psychology Ethics and Wellbeing at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, UoM (Editor-in-Chief of Collabra: Psychology) 

Prof William Locke, Director of the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, UoM (Founding Joint Editor of Policy Reviews in Higher Education) 

Prof Norie Neumark, Honorary Principal Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, UoM (Founding Editor of Unlikely: Journal for the Creative Arts) 

Dr Esther Levy, Wiley (Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Materials Technologies) 

Click on the link below to read part one, two and three:

Part One: An introduction to peer review and some advice for reviewers

Part Two: Peer review processes and advice for authors

Part Three: The future of peer review in a changing landscape