Peer Review

• Peer review

  • Key in meta-analysis
  • Process before study is published to ensure research is
  • High quality
  • Contribute to field of research
  • Accurate presentation
  • Done by experts in that field
  • Judge scientific credibility, quality (GRAVE) and experimental approach
  • Important to ensure only high quality research is shared; impacts day-to-day life so it must have valid conclusions and methods
• Peer Review Evaluation

  • Strengths
  • Promotes and maintains high research standards
  • Societal implications and funding allocation
  • Prevent scientific fraud as submitted work is scrutinised
  • Weaknesses
  • If anonymity isn’t maintained experts with conflict of interest may unapprove research to further their own reputation/career
  • Contributes to ‘file drawer effect'
  • Only statistically significant findings are published
  • So finding challenging existing understanding may not be published