Review Criteria For Research Manuscripts

Review Criteria For Research Manuscripts

Synopsis

High-quality reviews are vital both for ensuring the excellence of published scholarship and as a way to provide authors with important feedback to use to improve their scholarship. The importance of the reviewer's guide to faculty development cannot be overestimated. This completely updated, expanded second edition is written to support our growing community of medical education scholars. As dissemination of scholarly work in medical education continues to evolve, review guidelines for different types of work are needed. This edition includes new chapters on reporting qualitative findings, reviewing literature reviews, and reviewing reports on innovations. This guide intends to: Familiarize our reviewers with the purposes of review, approaches to or best practices for reviewing, and criteria for superlative research. Help reviewers organize and communicate their recommendations effectively to Academic Medicine and other journals. Help researchers by explaining the criteria used to evaluate their submissions Improve peer review and the quality of published research Peer review is a time-consuming and imperfect process, but can result in a radically improved research report that ultimately has a substantial impact on our thinking about difficult problems. This updated guide will contribute to our efforts to improve peer review and improve the quality of published research.