peer review

• what is a peer review?

  an independent assessment process that takes place before a research study is published and is undertaken by other experts on the same field of psychology

  there are several aims of the peer review process:

  -provide recommendations about whether the research should br published or not

  -a way to check validity of research

  -assess the appropriateness of the procedure and methodology

  -just the significance of the research to wider context

  -assess the works originality and ensure that other relevant research is detailed
• strengths 


  the process helps to prevent any substandard research from entering mainstream which serves to protect the reputation og the discipline, there is less opportunity for plagiarised work or duplications of research to be published , meaning the work will be trusted for the articles that they disseminate
• limitations

  as peer reviewers are often anonymous, possibility of using this to criticise their rivals in their field of psychology, as a result inaccurate or unfair criticisms may be received which is not a valid reflection of the quality of research

  difficulty finding a suitable peer which can happen on a nre or ground-breaking topic, as the chosen researcher could have not fully understood the aims of the study or content