Peer Review: The Key to Quality in Scientific Communication  

The panel will present a discussion of the role of peer review in the process of authoring and publishing technical papers and scientific and technical articles. The three panelists discuss 1) the role of peer review in the publishing process and its importance in ensuring integrity and quality; 2) the working relationship between journal editor and reviewer; and 3) the kind ofpartnership among journal editor, author’s editor, and author that makes the most efective use of each review. Each panelist will give a IO-minute presentation followed by a brief question and answer period in which the other two panelists will participate. Following the presentations there will be a discussion period in which the audience will be divided into thirds and the panelists will rotate among the three groups for three Jifteen-minute sessions of open discussion.

Hibbard, Jeffrey L., Lottie B. Applewhite and David L. Armbruster. STC Proceedings (1997). Articles>Scientific Communication>Publishing