Psychologist Henry L. Roediger III gives some excellent advice for reviewing journals papers (two word summary: be nice!). Though a psychologist, his twelve tips should have applicability for all academic disciplines. An excerpt from his introduction follows:
Many critical skills needed for becoming a successful academic are typically not taught in graduate school, at least not in any formal way. One of these is how to review journal articles. Few students coming out of graduate school have much experience reviewing papers, and yet, at least for those students continuing on in research, reviewing is a skill that will be increasingly critical as their careers develop. In fact, being a good reviewer can greatly help a career. If a young psychologist becomes known as an excellent reviewer, he or she may be selected as consulting editor, then associate editor, and then perhaps the primary editor of a journal.
Where are the 12 tips?
Is there a link to the article or post?
Ah, I was not using my usual bloging software, and the link went astray. It should be there now.
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Reviewing journal articles is time consuming and sometimes onerous but ultimately it is a learning experience. We have set up a video journal website for pathology at http://www.PathLab.org and we have to review all the video material submitted. See http://www.PathLab.org for more information. Thank you
thanks a lot….
where is the tips? haiyoo
damn…where is it!
Yeah, where are the 12 tips. They would be pretty helpful right about now.
Jenny
The link is in the above post, but in case you missed it:
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=2157
I think day by day student research capability are improving.But all this is happening in big universities.Else student are wasted in other university.Give link for 12 steps.
well, I need the tips
Herman, just follow the link in the post.
Excellent 12 tips. Thank you
These days it seems the only people doing any serious reading of this sort are academics, such as yourself.
Most of the people I know only read How-To books or things that directly interest them.
Sadly, if they expanded their horizons to include the unknown, life would be so much richer.