Peer Review Training Resources
The contents of the Peer Review Center are also available as a live, interactive training session, complete with slides, talking points, and activities.
Contact us if you are interested in co-hosting a training session at your institution or download the materials here to host a session of your own.
How to peer review
Slides and talking points for a 2 hour and 25 minute peer review training
This session covers:
- Responding to invitations and controlling your workload
- Reading with peer review in mind
- Completing the review
- Peer review recognition
and more…
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Peer review training activity pack
Worksheets and handouts include:
- Check the Journal Guidelines
- What Makes Good Feedback
- Action Plan
- Scratch paper, for taking notes
| Important: For the “what makes good feedback” exercise, participants will need some example peer reviews to read and assess. You can find published peer reviews alongside many PLOS journal articles by visiting your favorite journal website. |
Past articles featured in this section have included:
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PLOS BIOLOGY Machine learning of human plasma lipidomes for obesity estimation in a large population cohort Read more… |
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PLOS ONE Impacts of climate change on agro-climatic suitability of major food crops in Ghana Read more… |
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PLOS ONE Consumers discard a lot more food than widely believed: Estimates of global food waste using an energy gap approach and affluence elasticity of food waste Read more… |