Research Guides: Scholarly Peer Review Guide: Receiving and Responding to Reviews

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Getting Reviewed: Responding & Revising

Receiving peer review feedback can be a unique (and sometimes difficult) experience.

The resources below will help you understand how to receive the constructive criticism of your peers and how to respond to their suggestions.

Best Practices in Peer Review: An AAUP Handbook Handbook articulating "a set of practices that comprise a rigorous process of peer review," especially for scholarly monographs. Serves as a guide to new editors and publishing programs, but also provides a reference point for scholars, authors, and universities.
How reviewers look at your paper – your questions answered "An understanding of the peer-review process can help authors be more successful." Provided by Elsevier
"I submitted to Journal X but all I got was this lousy revision" - Why being given a “revise” decision is a beginning, not an end Addresses the opportunities in a revision and provides detailed advice for responding to the revision recommendations. by Christopher Tancock, 21 Aug 2018, for Authors' Update (Elsevier)
How to Make Your Article Easy to Review From Elsevier and experienced reviewers. This links to Part 4; look at bottom of the story for links to Parts 1-3!
Do's and don'ts for responding to peer reviewers' comments - includes a free template by Shazia Khanam, 17 Oct 2013, for Editage Insights. Includes a free downloadable template for responding to reviewer comments.
'Eight reasons I rejected your article' A journal editor reveals the top reasons so many manuscripts don’t make it to the peer review process By Peter Thrower, PhD. Posted on 12 September 2012, on Elsevier Connect.
Writing a Response to Reviewer Comments by Meghan Duffy, the Dynamic Ecology blog, May 26, 2015
How Not to Respond to Reviewers: Eight Simple Tips By Jack Leeming, on the Nature Jobs blog, 19 Aug 2016. "If you’ve received mixed reviews of a paper or are publishing for the first time, where do you start?"
15 Top Tips for Revising Journal Articles by Deborah Lupton, "This Sociological Life" blog, 10 Jan 2017
Dear anonymous peer-reviewer, your criticism made me a better researcher Higher Education Network: Academics Anonymous blog, by anonymous academic, 31 March 2017

Peer Review Nightmares: Navigate the Toughest Feedback

"A deep dive into the WORST of peer review and how to effectively respond to negative comments. Share your worst peer review stories and let's learn to navigate the toughest feedback together!"

Effective Responses to Peer Reviewers

"Reviewers’ comments are often extremely valuable, but some can be hard to address, unclear, or even misinformed. To get published, authors are left to piece everything back together and win the reviewers over. The only way to succeed is through communication. In this webinar, Peter Gorsuch of Gorsuch Scientific (www.gorsuchscientific.com) will share communication tips to help authors ease the review process from start to finish: within the initial draft, after receipt of the reviews, and particularly, within the response to reviewers."