Open Forum Session - Organised by the ESR Publications Committee

OF 8Y - Channel your inner reviewer

March 5, 10:00 - 11:00 CET

5 min
Chairperson's introduction
7 min
Fostering ethical reviewing
  1. To introduce and define publication ethics.
  2. To learn about duplication, redundancy, overlaps, and salami-slicing.
  3. To understand ethical and unethical author behaviour.
7 min
Role of the reviewer
  1. To learn what makes an ideal review.
  2. To learn to provide constructive suggestions to authors and editors, avoiding destructive comments.
  3. To learn how to review a revised manuscript.
7 min
Reporting guidelines
  1. To consider diversity of data (equity, balance, race, and ethical issues).
  2. To understand how to use reporting guidelines (including Equator network, AI, CLEAR).
7 min
What to consider when reviewing AI papers
  1. To learn about the importance of data splitting (training, testing, validation, etc.).
  2. To appreciate the particularities of AI-related manuscripts.
  3. To understand how to evaluate AI depending on the task.
7 min
What is the clinical impact
  1. To understand what succeeds at creating clinical impact (and what fails to).
  2. To create an impactful clinical/critical relevance (statement).
  3. To understand how to link clinical impact and citation performance.
20 min
Open forum discussion: What makes a good reviewer and how to become one?