Lectures

The lecture portion of Peerspectives has been run with 4 interactive lectures. Each lecture has lasts 3 hours (including breaks). These three hours are used to introduce lecture content to students, recap the previous lecture, and review the take-home assignments with course participants.

The content of the lectures is based on:

• Personal experience of the creators of the course
• Discussions with colleagues
• The BMJ Reviewer training materials CITE
• Experience from The BMJ
• Science Editors’ Handbook CITE
• Scientific publications, commentaries, and opinion pieces about peer review

Lecture topics

	Suggested Lecture Title with links to the complete lecture slides	Suggested Lecture Topics with links to slides for broken down topics
1	Introduction to the roles of journals, editors, and peer review(ers)	Course overview Getting to know you Role of journals Role of editors Role of peer review(ers) Reliability and biases, review types, & improving quality of peer review
2	Peer review conduct and how to write a helpful, useful review	Sex, gender, & diversity considerations in peer review Lecture 1 wrap-up + review of take-home assignment #1 Peer review conduct and writing tips Guidelines for peer review: style and approach Writing a good review More tips + recommendations for peer reviewing
3	Publish or perish? A cornucopia of contributions and credit, productivity, publication ethics, and open science	Lecture 2 recap + review of take-home assignment #2 Credit for contributions to research Measures of scientific productivity Predatory journals Ethical guidelines for peer review (COPE) Recap: Lecture 2 (continued) Open science
4	From theory to practice - Review procedure & walk-through	From theory to practice: live walk through of a peer review Lecture 3 recap The peer review procedure: from start to finish Final workshop preparations Generative AI in peer review Last words

Tips

Before each lecture

• Check to ensure that the online lecture link was sent to all course participants
• Check to ensure that the lecture link works correctly