What is peer review ?
Answer
Here are a few links that might help to answer your questions:
- From Elsevier (a huge scientific publishing company): http://www.elsevier.com/reviewers/reviewer-guidelines
- From the University of Manitoba Peer Review Guidelines: http://cs.umanitoba.ca/~pmuser/PMUSER_Peer_Review_Guidelines.pdf
- A comprehensive 7-page document outlining peer review: http://www.orau.org/documents/about/ORAU%20Peer%20Review%20White%20Paper.pdf