title: Peer review: from recognition to improved practices.
abstract: Scientific publishing has experienced profound changes in recent years, such as the advent of open-access journals, the increasing use of preprint archives or post-publication blogs, to name a few. One pillar still remains: peer review as a key ingredient that, in most cases, contributes to clarity and quality, often detecting errors and misinterpretations. Unfortunately, peer review is poorly recognized and good reviewers are rather a 'rare avis'. Even worse, this necessary task in science is generally overlooked in curricula and post-graduate education. Some considerations should help us all to ameliorate greatly our understanding and duties.
authors.affiliation: Department of Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences-UEX, Avda de Elvas s/n, E-06006 Badajoz, Spain pecintas@unex.es.
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cintas
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D017712:Peer Review, Research / Q000941:ethics; D011643:Publishing
keywords: improved practices; misconduct issues; peer review; peer review indexes; post-publication review; scientific integrity