Peer Review

• Peer review is a process that takes place before a study is published to check the quality and validity of the research, and to ensure that the research contributes to its field.
• Peer review has an important function, as it ensures that only high quality research is disseminated and available as a body of scientific evidence.
• The main goals of peer review in the scientific community are to ensure the quality and validity of research, provide constructive feedback to improve the study, and determine if the research is suitable for publication.
• Peer review ensures the quality and validity of research by subjecting it to evaluation by experts in the same field, who assess the methodology, findings, and conclusions before publication.
• The role of peer review is to evaluate the quality and validity of research before it is published, ensuring that it meets the standards of the scientific community.
• If research was published without peer review, the poor research might damage the integrity of that field of research, or that of the discipline as a whole.
• Peer review is an evaluation process before publication.
• Peer review promotes and maintains high standards in research, which has implications for society and funding allocation so that it is assigned to high quality research.
• Peer review helps to prevent scientific fraud, as submitted work is scrutinised by others in that area of specialism.
• The peer review process is still subject to bias from those evaluating the study.