From: "Devine, Elaine" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:30:21 +0000

***APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING***

Published today is Peer review: a global view (http://bit.ly/29zjGG1),
bringing together primary research which explores researchers’ views
on their motivations behind publishing in peer reviewed journals and
in undertaking peer review, and their attitudes and opinions towards
training and support in peer review.

The research reveals:

-          Over two thirds of researchers who have never peer reviewed
would like to.

-          Playing a part as a member of the academic community,
reciprocating the benefit, and improving papers are the strongest
motivations for accepting an invitation to peer review in Science,
Technology and Medicine (STM) and the Humanities and Social Sciences
(HSS).

-          Just 1 in 10 of today’s peer reviewers had been to a
workshop or formal training on peer review, yet over half of
respondents would like to (51% in HSS and 55% in STM).

-          For those yet to review, any guidance is popular - over two
thirds would like to a) receive editor’s guidelines b) attend a
workshop or formal training or c) receive publisher guidelines.

Including findings from an online survey as well as focus groups held
in China, South Africa and the UK, this supplement brings together
views from those working in the sciences, social sciences, medicine
and humanities, gathering responses from over 6,300 researchers
globally.

Read the research supplement and watch a snapshot of the findings at

http://bit.ly/29FUrVD.

Best wishes, Elaine

Elaine Devine
Senior Communications Manager (Author Relations), Taylor & Francis Group