Essential Tips on Refereeing for Academic Journals

Abstract

This paper is based on an “interview” I did for publons on how I approach refereeing for academic/scholarly journals. The paper covers a broad range of issues across topics including: managing invitations; writing the review; and open reviews. The views are my own, based on a career spanning 35 years, that have seen me review many hundreds of scholarly papers, for a wide variety of journals (primarily in finance, accounting and economics), across more than 60 different titles.

Keywords: Refereeing advice; Early career researcher

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