It's no secret that academic publishers are able to cut expenses by getting free content, free review, and often free editorial expertis...

So far in this series , I've discussed my approaches to reviewing a paper. Aside from writing a quality paper and recommending potentia...

With apologies for the exceptionally bad pun, Dave Hone of Archosaur Musings fame has just posted a nice entry on how to review a paper . H...

What fantastic timing! Dave Hone has just posted his perspectives on " How to edit a volume of papers ." The post provides a behi...

In the previous posting , I talked about the lead-up to the peer review process. Here, I'll discuss what I look for when I'm reviewi...

Peer review is one of the important cornerstones of academic paleontology--this process attempts to ensure that manuscripts considered for p...