Role of the AUTHOR
- Subject oneself to the discipline of the periodic publication of completed parts of work in a format that requires extreme rigour, reproducibility or results, appropriate reference to the work published previously by others, robust interaction with critically constructive reviewers and editors, and a tight relationship between the evidence presented and the conclusions drawn therefrom.
The role of the EDITOR
- Provide editorial policy which is accessible to authors
- Select appropriate peer-reviewers
- Assess review reports
- Decide whether publish, allow improvements; refuse
- Statistical review
- Ensure alignment with focus of journal
- No misconduct (presentation of data, graphs and figures not published elsewhere, plagiarism, inconsistent data sets)
- Manage errata and retractions
- Contextualise findings in editorials and supplementary sections
The role of the PEER REVIEWER
- Scrutinise methods and results ito consistency, interpretability, reproducibility
- Identify gaps in interpretation and findings
- Suggest improvement in terms of style, length and focus;
- Assess originality and proper citation and referencing of previous studies
- Contest unjustified conclusions
- “Place” the work in the existing matrix of knowledge in the relevant area or field
