What is it about?
Authors have an increasing range of measurable guidelines, requirements, assessment targets and expectations laid upon from different sources; journals, institutions, and ethics committees. Journal editors and reviewers, do not have such globally recognized structures or measures of expectations or performance. This paper discusses the work of some groups and organisations which are making progress towards establishing competency frameworks and skills training for journal editors and reviewers.
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Why is it important?
Setting standards and learning frameworks really does help to raise the quality of services we could be delivering each other all across the journal process. Having recognised standards would help manage expectations, and helps with consistency for everyone involved in many parts of the journal publishing process.
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I am a big fan of training resources for reviewers and editors, and very keen on deploying the kinds of frameworks and training discussed in this article.
Duncan Nicholas
DN Journal Publishing Services
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This page is a summary of: Advances in standards and training for journal editors and peer reviewers, May 2018, European Association of Science Editors,
DOI: 10.20316/ese.2018.44.18005.
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