Did your peer review process lead to a more rigorous paper in the end? Did your peer reviewing of others’ papers give you any insights on how much work goes into vetting papers prior to publication or what pitfalls there may be in the process?

Peer review reflection

This is an opportunity for students to reflect on and distill some of the key concepts in the course and is different to a formal essay or report. After a series of group activities, it is also your opportunity to earn grades solely on your own thoughts and ideas.
We ask you to reflect the nature of the peer review process and your group activities as an approach to illustrating it. In Week 2 we discussed the peer review process and then ran through group activities participating in a peer review process as authors and as reviewers. Reflect on your own knowledge of the peer review process in theory (i.e., information that was delivered in lessons, linked resources, plus any further reading) as well as your own experience of the practice of peer review (i.e., the three phases of group activity). Reflect on whether the peer review process is the best possible approach for reporting climate science findings. Did your peer review process lead to a more rigorous paper in the end? Did your peer reviewing of others’ papers give you any insights on how much work goes into vetting papers prior to publication or what pitfalls there may be in the process? Outline the relative merits of the peer review process, as you see it. In your opinion, how could it be improved?