VCSEwiki:Peer review

Review process
For quality criteria, you can enter the Review process of some academic journals:
 * Analysis of evaluation reports of scientific papers: what referees say
 * See also List of academic journals - select one and find out the rules!
 * For the process of reviewing itself, see Peer Review in Wikipedia

= Example of Review Form =

Paper title:

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1. Basic criteria
1.1. Relevance of the subject to the general theme (High/Medium/Low)

1.2. Coherence of the content with the title and thesis (High/Medium/Low)

1.3. Quality of the content from the methodological point of view (see below) (High/Medium/Low)

1.4. Quality of the text from the formal point of view (see below) (High/Medium/Low)

2. Summary Comments for Author(s)
2.1. Contribution to theory or practice (High/Medium/Low) ......................

2.2. Originality of the paper (High/Medium/Low) ......................

2.3. Adequate references to prior and related works by other authors (High/Medium/Low) ......................

2.4. Accurate information (Yes/No) .........................

2.5. Current information (Yes/No) .......................

2.6. Methodology (Yes/No) ...........................

2.7. Writing style is generally (Excellent/Readable/Poor) ....................

2.7.1. Paper is logically organised (Yes/No) ....................

2.7.2. Ideas are clearly presented (Yes/No) ....................

2.8. Meets submission requirements (abstract, length, style, citation rules) (Yes/No)..........

3. Written Comments for Author(s)
.....................................................................................

4. General Recommendation for articles (highlight one option):
4.1. Publish as is

4.2. Acceptable with minor modifications

4.3. Might be accepted after major modifications

4.4. Unacceptable (select following option):

4.4.1. Not appropriate for the content/theme of the Course

4.4.2. Technically deficient

4.4.3. Quality of presentation is poor

Resource
Modified form of the JOURNAL OF TEACHER EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY