How to review a paper
Advice for those assessing if a paper is fit for publication
Almost every chemist is asked to do peer review – but how do you make your feedback valid and valuable? We spoke to experts with a wealth of publishing and reviewing experience. Stuart Cantrill is chief editor at Nature Chemistry; Rob Eagling is editor-in-chief of Chem; Fiona Hutton is a publisher at Cambridge University Press; May Copsey is executive editor for Chemical Science; and Robert Baker is an assistant professor in inorganic and materials chemistry at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and associate editor at RSC Advances.