REVIEW OF JOURNAL ARTICLES

Peer review of journal articles

Peer review helps in timely publication with greater quality. It is an essential tool of editorial progress in case of research in nursing. Peer review of journal articles act as an essential tool, especially for staff like teacher, learner and educator to utilize in an efficient way.

Benefits of peer review of journal articles

• Promote nursing staff  who practice nursing as profession
• Assist a new beginner
• Educates the nursing student
• Staff educators are empowered by proper collection of informations by peer preview
• Provides feedback of articles to be published in the journals
• Impact factor selection
• Basic learning of clinical staff
• Onset of goals for staff evaluation
• Increasing health quality of a patient
• Safe handing of medical techniques

Peer review helps in improving quality of manuscript without any flaws. They establish a proper communication channel between reviewers, authors and researchers. Review by peers will confirm whether the research article is accepted or rejected depending on originality of the information collected. The reason for acceptance or rejection of an article should be explained to the editorial board and authors. Peer review comment over authors’ research articles should be clear, sharp, true, logical, informative, beneficial to third party who are in need of it and balanced supply of data to substantiate.

Review board will set the scale for problem statement, entire originality, result, interpretation and discussion of results and the most important way of presentation i.e. writing style without any flaw or ambiguity in general aspects and technical aspects. To assess the quality of research articles, descriptive statistics were established. Variations can be easily predicted by comparisons with independent T test and ANOVA. They concentrate more on technical aspects like design, procedures and methods rather than introduction and literature review of research article.

Questions:

• Explain the importance of Peer review in article publication.
• Briefly discuss about review of journal articles