'Scholarly Peer Reviewing': The Art, Its Joys and Woes

Overview

Journal Indian J Anaesth

Specialty Anesthesiology

Date 2015 Sep 18

PMID 26379288

Citations 5

Authors

Madhuri S Kurdi

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Abstract

Research and publications are an important part of academics. Nowadays, there is an increasing trend amongst professionals including anaesthesiologists to submit scientific articles to journals for publication. Most journals are peer-reviewed which means that the articles they publish go through the peer review process. Peer review is carried out for assessing the inadequacies of research and manuscript preparation so that the best papers are published in a journal. Although peer review is a key part of the process for the publishing of medical research, there are some limitations in the system. Keeping this in mind, all aspects of peer reviewing were searched from books and journals for full text from PubMed and Google search. The information so gathered is presented in this article which focuses on the general aspects of the peer review process.

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