Scientific Peer Reviewing by Peter Spyns & María-Esther Vidal

Author:Peter Spyns & María-Esther Vidal
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Take the Specific Context into Account

Conferences, workshops, special journal issues, and journals in general all have their specific thematic focus, target community, geographic span, sometimes language area, review criteria and procedures and infrastructure, time lines, and formatting guidelines, which are detailed in the call for papers. A good reviewer has to make himself/herself acquainted with these idiosyncrasies and comply with them. For example, it is pointless to reject a submission due to a lacking evaluation section if the call for contributions targets short position papers with visions for future trends. It is bad for your reputation as a reviewer when chairs and submitters discover that you did not bother to familiarize yourself with the context of the call for papers.

It also helps to estimate the time and effort you may want to spend on reviewing. Reviewing for a high-impact journal requires more time, attention, and scrutiny than an informally organized workshop. Of course, this is not a plea minimizing on time spent on reviews for workshops.

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