Peer Review Process: The Quality and Duration in Iranian Medical Journal

Peer review is a process that will led to a decision for publication a manuscript in a journal or not. Peer review has some states and types. The aim of this study is going to define the process and clarify the author demands from journals to review their manuscripts. For having a result in this study I have study and review more than 200 manuscripts’ peer review result and ask the authors about the satisfaction about reviewer’s comments on their manuscript. There are some points that all the journals and editors should take another look on them and of course there are some points that authors should take a look at them. Also peer review always make some serious problems for journals that some point to resolve these problem will discuss here. According to result of author survey of more than 40 medical journals, 85% of authors didn’t satisfied with comments left on their manuscript by editor and reviewers. Also peer review duration are not acceptable for most of authors. On the other hand editor had some complains about reviewers that do not respond to their invitations. Peer review process with strong and in time comments are a very important key for journals to attract the good authors and manuscripts. Peer review should not take a decision foe acceptance or rejection of a manuscript, in fact peer review should increase the validity and quality of the manuscript even if it would be rejected.