Title

What we owe the author: Rethinking editorial peer review

Keywords

Beneficence; Editorial peer review; Epistemology; Ethics; Impartiality; Universalizability

Abstract

Editorial peer reviewers play an important role in shaping the direction of knowledge growth of their discipline. Recent concern over reports of peer review misconduct has led some to advocate the establishment of a code of ethics for peer reviewers. Such a code should include guidelines for the discipline and for society at large, but it should also contain guidelines for the authors whose manuscripts are reviewed. Peer reviewers have a special obligation to show beneficence and fairness or impartiality towards the authors for whom they review. The practical application of these two ethical concepts is discussed.

Publication Date

1-1-1998

Publication Title

Nursing Ethics

Volume

5

Issue

5

Number of Pages

451-458

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/096973309800500508

Socpus ID

0032159084 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0032159084

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