New Article: Better navigating the peer review process for authors, editors, and reviewers

[Benjamin Sovacool]

Dear all,

 

Have you ever been frustrated by bad peer review comments?  Or wondered, “how do I go about doing peer review, what is expected of me?”  Or just begun a job as a new editor at a journal? Or wanted to know how editors think, to see a sample of actual peer review comments, or a successful response to reviewer document? 

 

The entire esteemed editorial team of Energy Research & Social Science put our collective heads together and wrote a Perspective based on our experience, with no less than 33 (!) distinct tips for authors, editors, and reviewers.  We by no means claim to have discovered the only tips available, but nevertheless wanted to offer the broader energy social science community our reflections in order to make the peer review process more effective, efficient, and even enjoyable. Although focused on the energy and climate change communities, we hope our suggestions will be use well beyond these areas.

 

Our Perspective “Towards codes of practice for navigating the academic peer review process” is fully open access, and available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629622001797

 

Most sincerely,

 

Benjamin and colleagues