Peer Review Process: The Quality and Duration inIranian Medical Journal

Introduction: Peer review is a process that will led to a decision for publication amanuscript in a journal or not. Peer review has some states and types. The aim of this studyis going to define the process and clarify the author demands from journals to review theirmanuscripts.Materials and Methods: For having a result in this study I have study and review morethan 200 manuscripts’ peer review result and ask the authors about the satisfaction aboutreviewer’s comments on their manuscript. There are some points that all the journals andeditors should take another look on them and of course there are some points that authorsshould take a look at them. Also peer review always make some serious problems forjournals that some point to resolve these problem will discuss here.Results: According to result of author survey of more than 40 medical journals, 85% ofauthors didn’t satisfied with comments left on their manuscript by editor and reviewers.Also peer review duration are not acceptable for most of authors. On the other hand editorhad some complains about reviewers that do not respond to their invitations.Conclusions: Peer review process with strong and in time comments are a very importantkey for journals to attract the good authors and manuscripts. Peer review should not takea decision foe acceptance or rejection of a manuscript, in fact peer review should increasethe validity and quality of the manuscript even if it would be rejected.

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Peer Review ، ResearchJournal ArticlePublicationsJournalism ، Medical