Peer review plays a major role in scholarly publishing by filtering out lower quality manuscripts and directing higher quality works to better journals. There are several types of peer review processes, with single-blind and double-blind being the most common. Peer review serves to evaluate research integrity and quality, ensuring that published works contribute meaningful new knowledge to their fields.

1. Guide to Manuscript Peer Review
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2. What is Peer Review?
❏ Peer Review plays a major role in raising the standard of scholarly publishing. It is
designed to assess the validity, quality, and most of all integrity of science by
filtering out the poor quality content from the manuscripts. It is a widely accepted
method for research validation.
❏ Peer review functions as a content filtration method, directing better quality
manuscripts to better quality journal papers and thus creating better journals in
research academia.

3. Peer Review
Process

4. Types of Peer Review
❏ Single Blind Review
This type of peer review is the most traditional method. In this, the author does not know
the identity of the reviewers. It is one of the most common methods of reviewing the
science journals.
❏ Double-Blind Review
In case of double blind peer review, the reviewers don’t know the identity of author and
vice versa.

5. ❏ Open Review
The identity of author and reviewers is known by all the participants. This type of peer
review is not a popular one, only minority of journals go for open peer review. The
accepted manuscripts can be accessed by the readers post-publishing. The readers
can directly view the credentials of the author as well as the peer reviewers.
❏ Transferable Peer Review
This one is fairly a new form of peer review. In this case, the author submits his
manuscript, when it has been reviewed by the peers , they can decide whether it is
suitable to be published in their journal or not. In case it is not suitable, then they have
an option to transfer it to the other journal.

6. Purpose of Manuscript Peer Review
Getting a manuscript peer review is a valid form of research evaluation. It ensures
that an original research has been done which contributes to the existing knowledge of
a particular discipline.
❏ Evaluation- By selecting the best quality manuscript for publications.
❏ Integrity- Reviewers are independent entity of journal publication and research
being conducted.
❏ Quality- Revised and filtered content helps the researcher to improve the quality
of the final research.

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