Ecpn Luncheon: How to Review Articles

Session Chairs: Amanda Sisselman, D.S.W. and Nancy Travino-Schafer, M.S.

Peer review is an integral part of most (if not all) SPR members’ professional responsibilities.  Some ECPN members are at a stage in their career when they are learning how to answer peer reviewers comments (e.g., when revising a manuscript). Other ECPN members are currently transitioning into the role of being a peer reviewer themselves. Being a peer reviewer eventually becomes a significant part of a researcher’s work. To help ECPN members to become competent peer reviewers, this session has several goals:

(1)       To outline a few principles that can help us do a good job when conducting a peer review;

(2)       To use these principals in an interactive reviewing activity, moderated by ECPN members;

(3)       To provide guidelines about when to say “yes” and when to say “no” to a peer review request.

This topic is especially timely considering that Catherine Bradshaw, the upcoming editor of Prevention Science, will put together a mentored-review program for the journal, wherein graduate students will get the chance to learn how to conduct good peer reviews of submitted manuscripts.