BU Research Blog

Regardless of academic discipline, peer review remains the cornerstone in ensuring that papers published in journals are of the highest quality. Experts in the field are asked to comment on whether the reported research has been conducted rigorously, whether it is ethical and whether its findings have meaningful implications for practice or research in the discipline. Journal editors have depended on some form of peer review since journals began publishing research and historically peer review has been effective. Unfortunately, the peer review process is now in crisis.

It was a privilege to work with editorial colleagues from Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, USA, Poland and Manchester (!) on this editorial reflecting on some of the key challenges facing peer review for journals and to explore some of the possible solutions. The following link will take you directly to the editorial.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jocn.70374

If you are interested in becoming a peer reviewer for the Journal of Clinical Nursing please contact me at lgelling@bournemouth.ac.uk.