Question

Internal Password Sensitivity Restricted Sensitive Secret - Confidential Describe the importance of peer review in scientific research and how to determine if the information is peer-reviewed. Analyze another two criteria to determine quality information and how does it compare with the peer review requirement. What is the correct way to evaluate the data, and why?

Answer 1

Scientific research is defined as a systematic inquiry of new ideas and facts in a controlled environment. Peer review in research process refers to the process of evaluating the work of the researcher by one or more people possessing same competencies,education,experience and qualities.The benefits of peer review are to publish research articles only of high quality.To improve the quality of the manuscript and make to publish in an established journals of higher index.

The ways to recognize the peer reviewed journals by examining the journal publications by locating the journal name and identify the issued year. Look for masthead of the publication if not check the article submission method if it states the authors to send three copies it confirms that the journal is peer reviewed.

The peer review is done by the reviewer by identifying the relevance of the research statement, content suitability for the subject matter, adequacy of the literature support in review of literature section. The statement of the research problem must be clear,concise and should have concepts. Abstract must contain purpose of the study,methods of data collection,sampling technique,statistical tools and analysis technique,conclusions and recommendation of the study.

Reviewer also evaluated the research design,originality of the study,plagiarism levels, scientific errors and even the grammatical and typological errors. The different types of peer review includes single blind review in which the identity of reviewer doing review is kept secret whereas the author identity is revealed to the reviewer. Double blind review both the author and reviewer identity are kept secret.