Wat is peer review?

Peer review (in het Nederlands: “collegiale toetsing”) betekent dat de kwaliteit van het onderzoek beoordeeld wordt door collega’s (in het Engels: “peers”) alvorens het onderzoek gepubliceerd wordt. Lees hier meer over de betekenis en het verloop van “peer-reviewed” publiceren.

Hoe kom je erachter of een artikel peer reviewed is?

Een peer review is dus een toetsing door een vakgenoot. Als je ziet dat een artikel ‘peer-reviewed’ is kun je uitgaan van de betrouwbaarheid en de kwaliteit van de informatie. In veel bibliografische bestanden kun je bij je zoekactie aangeven dat je alleen ‘peer-reviewed’ artikelen wilt zien.

What are peer reviews and how do they work?

When people discuss “peer reviews”, they are referring to the process of employees being assessed by their colleagues in terms of their performance, strengths and weaknesses, and other work-related aspects.

Are peer reviewers in scholarly journals anonymous?

Scholarly. Traditionally, peer reviewers have been anonymous, but there is currently a significant amount of open peer review, where the comments are visible to readers, generally with the identities of the peer reviewers disclosed as well.

What is peer review at the National Institutes of Health?

A reviewer at the American National Institutes of Health evaluates a grant proposal. Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field.

Does peer review prevent the publication of invalid research?

However, peer review does not entirely prevent publication of invalid research, and as experimentally controlled studies of this process are difficult to arrange, direct evidence that peer review improves the quality of published papers is scarce.