The principle and rules of peer-review

Abstract

 Reviewers should make a recommendation for or against publication based on the unbiased independent, critical assessment of the manuscript submitted to journals, and make comments to help authors and editors improve the quality of the manuscript. In this context, scientific papers published in journals are products by cooperation of authors, reviewers and editors. Reviewers are obliged to meet the deadline for reviewing and are responsible for the confidentiality of the contents of the manuscript. COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers, and Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals are useful for us to understand the principles and rules for peer-review.