We are always looking for peer reviewers in all specialties to add to our database.
Profile
You will be health care professionals or epidemiologists with experience in evidence based medicine. As a peer reviewer you would be asked for your views on the clinical relevance, validity and accessibility of specific systematic reviews within BMJ Clinical Evidence, and their usefulness to the intended audience (international generalists and health care professionals, possibly with limited statistical knowledge). Reviews are usually 2000-3000 words in length. The peer review process takes place throughout the year, and our turnaround time for each review is ideally 10-14 days.
Important note
A suitable peer reviewer would need to understand the following:
- That authors have been asked to summarise the type of evidence and what it finds.
- That this is not a traditional textbook chapter or narrative style review.
- That in order to undertake this work, you will be confident about:
- The difference between a randomised controlled trial, a cohort study, and a case control study
- What makes a systematic review systematic
- What is meant by relative risk, absolute risk, number needed to treat, and confidence interval, and how these are calculated
- What is meant by a power calculation and how this relates to clinically important differences between interventions
What to do next
If you are interested in becoming a peer reviewer for BMJ Clinical Evidence, please complete the peer review questionnaire for our consideration.