Someone has to be Reviewer #2 (and sometimes it has to be you)

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Last year I was lucky to be part of the MDS Peer Reviewing Education and Mentoring Program and I was even more fortunate to be paired with @ecebayram as a mentor!

In this post, I’m sharing a visual resource I created for our community with some basics I’ve learned about the peer review process and why it’s important to take part in it.

If you’re feeling unsure about reviewing others’ work (like I was), I highly recommend this program.

Have you joined the program? I’d love to hear about your experience!
Check out my infographic and let me know if you think anything’s missing.

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i keep the Lele that you gave me in my office :heart_eyes: loving the infographic and i’ll also add reviewing others’ writing so critically makes you a better writer & researcher as well. you have an idea of what to pay attention to after you go over someone else’s work. there’s a reason why there are 2 or more reviewers, so you’re not necessarily expected to catch every single gap. that being said, don’t forget to go over what the other reviewer also commented on and how the authors responded to the other reviewer. it might give you an idea on what you may have missed and pay attention to

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Very helpful! Thanks for sharing!

The infographic is very informative and I definitely took away something new!

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Wow, that’s such as great work you have done here, @paularp! Both in the visualization part (love the visual resource) and in content. This is the type of summarized material I needed. I have no prior training in peer review besides seeing what others peer reviewers provided me, and as I am getting more invites to be a peer reviewer, I do think that a little bit of direction from a trustworthy source will help me!

In my reviews, I’m not used to including “fatal”, “major” and “minor” but instead, only “major” and “minor” aspects, but including a “fatal” component makes total sense to further highlight some key aspects I was only labeling as major. Thank you for this insight!