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) |
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| 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 |
Before each lecture
make sure that the link to the online video platform was sent to all involved and works well