This book will be of interest mainly to academics/scholars.
Coming from the Association of American Medical Colleges, as it is, this book is written with the medical professional in mind. However, it looks like most of the information in it would be of value to anyone doing reviews for peer-reviewed journals.
Many, maybe most, of the AAMC's free ebooks are free to their members only. They kindly have made this one available free to non-members too.
Title: Review Criteria for Research Manuscripts.
Format(s): Pdf.
Author(s): Durning, Steven J.; Carline, Jan D. (editors).
Publisher: Association of American Medical Colleges.
Pages: xii + 81.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): No ratings yet at Amazon or GoodReads. Book was published less than a year ago.
Price: $0.00.
Lowest Price at (or through Amazon) if available there: $18.85 (New Paperback).
Book Description (Amazon):
High-quality reviews are vital both for ensuring the excellence of published scholarship and as a way to provide authors with important feedback to use to improve their scholarship. The importance of the reviewer’s guide to faculty development cannot be overestimated.
This completely updated, expanded second edition is written to support our growing community of medical education scholars. As dissemination of scholarly work in medical education continues to evolve, review guidelines for different types of work are needed. This edition includes new chapters on reporting qualitative findings, reviewing literature reviews, and reviewing reports on innovations.
This guide intends to:
- Familiarize our reviewers with the purposes of review, approaches to or best practices for reviewing, and criteria for superlative research.
- Help reviewers organize and communicate their recommendations effectively to Academic Medicine and other journals.
- Help researchers by explaining the criteria used to evaluate their submissions
- Improve peer review and the quality of published research
- Peer review is a time-consuming and imperfect process, but can result in a radically improved research report that ultimately has a substantial impact on our thinking about difficult problems.
This updated guide will contribute to our efforts to improve peer review and improve the quality of published research.
Comments: I believe this to be a legal free download, because it is offered for free on the publisher's, the Association of American Medical College's, website (
https://members.aamc.org/eweb/Dynami...2-E6E1A6F0D421
URL: https://members.aamc.org/eweb/upload...anuscripts.pdf (direct link).